A gigantic, 45-foot whale carcass washed up on Rockaway Beach after floating off the coast of Long Island. Video from Chopper 2 shows the huge animal lying in the sand at the Queens beach Thursday.

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 ...

A massive whale carcass about the size of a city bus washed up on a Queens beach Thursday, jaw-dropping photos show. The 40-foot-long Sei whale was discovered stranded on Rockaway Beach near Beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As many as 55 pilot whales washed up on Farewell Spit, on New Zealand’s southern island - Reuters A rescue mission has been ...

With these viral stories of exploding whales, why aren’t they able to be removed before they actually explode? Whales are big—that’s the primary issue. And usually when they strand, they don’t strand ...

The warning comes after a massive 40-foot dead whale washed up on Rockaway Beach in Queens this week. The alert comes amid fears the carcass could explode, as gases produced during decomposition ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Conservation officials have been ...

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 ...

A massive dead humpback whale that washed ashore in Newport Beach earlier this week was towed out to sea Friday after drifting back offshore overnight, and marine scientists used the rare stranding to ...

A dead whale washed up in Delaware, and a necropsy team found subdermal hemorrhaging and a broken jaw on the whale's right side. (Courtesy MERR Institute) A dead 2-year-old humpback whale washed ...