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. An ...

A 20-foot-long minke whale died off the Jersey Shore on Saturday after striking and nearly capsizing a boat. According to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, a boat hit the animal in Barnegat Bay in ...

A minke whale died Saturday in a Jersey Shore bay a short time after videos showed it collide with a boat, nearly capsizing the vessel and throwing a person overboard. The dead whale was still seen in ...