WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale. A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the ...
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 ...
In 1970, a massive sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, creating a public problem officials didn’t know how to solve. With crowds gathering and decay setting in, authorities approved an ...