Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point the animal could explode with a huge bang,” whale researcher Fabian Ritter ...

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 one of the most hilariously weird examples of Oregon history, on November 12, 1970, officials decided to use a half-ton of dynamite to dispose of a dead whale (which apparently really stank) that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

When Whales Explode ...

Timmy the humpback whale's bloated carcass. Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming ...