When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something researchers call a whale fall. The body is a literal smorgasbord on which deep sea ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sight. The scavengers. The smell. These were the main problems Oregonians were facing when a dead sperm whale washed up on a ...
Oregon’s attempt to remove a dead sperm whale by explosion became a chaotic and cautionary tale.
The word “meme” didn’t exist when Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil—a KATU-TV reporter and cameraman, respectively—chartered a flight from Portland to Florence one cool November day in 1970, and the notion ...
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 ...