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

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

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

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

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 ...

Eager to clear a popular beach in the US of a beached sperm whale, local authorities hatched upon a dramatic solution on ...

Man behind Oregon's infamous exploding whale dies By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News An engineer who blew up a whale carcass in Oregon using some 20 cases of dynamite has died, but the biggest ...

VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 07: Actors Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway attend the premiere of the film 'Devil ...