Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

Timmy the humpback whale's bloated carcass. Timmy the whale, recently deceased, is at risk of exploding soon. The young humpback whale that first captured the internet's attention after becoming ...

A dead humpback whale stranded off the Danish island of Anholt is at risk of exploding because of gases building up inside the decomposing body, prompting authorities to launch an urgent operation 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen grab shows the bloated carcass of a dead humpback whale floating off the Danish island of Anholt. After unsuccessful ...