Dead whales are not just disgusting — they can become giant pressure bombs. The transcript explains that bacteria inside a ...

An enormous dead sperm whale washed ashore in Oregon, leaving officials with a problem they had never faced before. Instead ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends well.

The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose. The ...

Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming stranded in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea off ...