A whale watching tour in Nova Scotia, Canada, saw a great white shark eating a whale carcass during a Sept. 2 excursion It's a rare sighting because sharks "don't have to come to the surface to ...

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 ...

OSAKA--As onlookers said goodbye, a 15-meter dead sperm whale affectionally called "Yodo-chan" began the process of being buried at sea on the morning of Jan. 18. The carcass, floating in shallow ...

DON’T stand too close. Residents fear a 60,000kg whale that washed up near the boardwalk on a small Canadian town will blow up at any moment. Town clerk Emily Butler said the rotting 25-metre blue ...

Exploding whales—they boast a fairly brief, but dramatic history on the internet. Of course, who could forget this horrifying, totally disgusting, but oddly compelling video of a sperm whale carcass ...

OSAKA--When a massive dead whale was found drifting in Osaka Bay, local authorities took the rare step of burying the carcass, rather than cremating it, to harvest the skeleton for display at a museum ...

This photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows a sperm whale drifting in Osaka Bay in Osaka's Nishiyodogawa Ward on Jan. 13, 2023. (Mainichi/Takao Kitamura) OSAKA -- The Osaka Municipal ...

SINGAPORE: The carcass of a baleen whale was found in Singapore waters off Tanjong Pagar. The carcass was found on Sep 6, and the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

KITAKYUSHU -- A whale carcass caught on a breakwater in this southwestern Japan city about a week before was finally removed on Oct. 20 and taken away for an autopsy. It took more than two hours to ...