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 ...

Authorities face a bizarre problem when an eight-ton, 45-foot sperm whale washes onto an Oregon beach and begins decomposing in the sun. Their solution is extraordinary: surround the carcass with 20 ...

An enormous dead sperm whale washed ashore in Oregon, leaving officials with a problem they had never faced before. Instead of burying or removing the carcass, they decided to use half a ton of ...