Florence, Oregon, is famous for an exploding whale, but the town has much more to offer. It sits near the Oregon Dunes ...

In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious ...

The dead humpback whale lying off the Danish coast is increasingly at risk of exploding, according to a marine expert. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point the animal ...

Timmy the whale, recently deceased, could explode soon. “The pressure inside is building up more and more, and at some point ...

While still alive, the whale that had been named Timmy stranded off Poel. Later it washed up dead off Denmark.

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 ...

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber ...

The bizarre, blubber-filled story behind Oregon’s 1970 Exploding Whale Incident This is the crazy story of the 1970 Exploding Whale Incident in Florence, Oregon. It’s been 55 years since Oregon state ...