An enormous dead sperm whale washed ashore in Oregon, leaving officials with a problem they had never faced before. Instead ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oregon is known nationally for its trees and outdoor recreation, but what about the exploding whale? In November 1970, a dead ...

In November 1970, an 8-ton, 45-foot sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, leaving officials with an enormous problem. Believing dynamite would be the fastest solution, engineers packed the ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon highway engineer whose 1970 decision to use a half-ton of dynamite to blast away a beached dead whale became an Internet sensation has died. George Thomas Thornton ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Both the Eugene Emeralds and KATU’s classic news footage of the “exploding whale” got a shout-out on the latest episode of “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver. What does Oregon’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — No, authorities in Oregon are certainly not blowing up a beached whale carcass with dynamite — again — like officials near the coastal town of Florence decided to do in 1970.

How do you dispose of a dead whale? That’s a dilemma coastal communities must occasionally deal with. A very big dilemma. Whales are the largest creatures that our planet has ever produced — blue ...

Oregon is known nationally for its trees and outdoor recreation, but what about the exploding whale? In November 1970, a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach near Florence on the Oregon Coast. To get ...