In the decades since, the “Exploding Whale” has gone from a cautionary tale to a beloved piece of Oregon lore. The 55th ...

Exploding whale fanatics will find a boatload of fun activities in Florence on Sunday, Nov. 16. There will be a 55-year ...

Fifty-five years ago, the State of Oregon made history by blowing up an eight-ton whale carcass on a beach in Florence.

The explosion that sent huge chunks of whale blubber sailing into the sky is being brought to a whole new audience in a new ...

Thar she blows! The infamous intentional exploding of a whale carcass continues to ring through the halls of Oregon’s history ...

We’re celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Exploding Whale! That story from the 1970s inspired some local filmmakers to ...

Despite that, and despite the fact that KATU’s remastered clip of the explosion—uploaded in 2020—has more than 22 million views on YouTube, the exploding whale still feels like a private joke among ...

It’s been 55 years since Oregon state officials’ plan to obliterate a beached whale that washed up near Florence ended with a ...

In her SoHo loft, Joan Jonas hosted a dinner celebrating the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ turn to public programming ...

HILTON HEAD — The death investigation of a whale beached in May found that starvation caused the mammal’s demise. The 31-foot, 20-ton sperm whale was found May 3 on the coast of Hilton Head Island.

A baby whale’s inaugural cruise through Big Apple waters ended in tragedy over the weekend after its slashed and bloodied body beached on the shores of New Jersey. The still-breathing behemoth ...

The number of North Atlantic right whales ticked up in 2024, according to researchers’ latest estimate of this critically endangered species. Scientists, while cautiously optimistic, said threats ...