Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. on November 9, 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon, decided a 45-foot-long stinky sperm whale needed to go. A whale that dies ...

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 ...

Sometimes we get walloped with the messiness of life when we least expect it. Take what happened in Tainan, Taiwan. On January 17, 2004, a 66-ton sperm whale died and was beached on the southwestern ...

Beaked whales spend most of their time swimming in dark depths, and as they become vulnerable to extinction, this study provides remarkable clues about their behavior.