Officials planned to blast the carcass to smithereens and let the seagulls finish the job. Instead, the crowd, the dunes and one parked car all took the hit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone remembers the Florence exploding whale of 1970 (pictured), but Warrenton beat them by several years in the exploding ...

A calm final morning in Baja suddenly turns tense when a baby whale breaches dangerously close to a kayak. After days of tough fishing and heartbreak, the ocean finally comes alive with whales, manta ...

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 ...