When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

A viral video of two men posing on a dead whale has garnered scrutiny.

In 1980, a routine maintenance task inside a U.S. nuclear missile silo went catastrophically wrong. A dropped socket wrench punctured a Titan II missile, causing highly volatile fuel to leak into the ...

The young whale, dubbed "Oil Change," was seen repeatedly off Cape Cod, and would entertain whale watchers with breaches and ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

A 13-year-old boy was injured over the weekend when a firework exploded in his hand, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The incident happened near an apartment complex on Clarcona Pointe ...

Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? Late December is a great time to make it happen — and the weather might even play ball this year. Upward of 14,000 gray whales are expected to swim ...

Imagine yourself scuba diving in crystal-clear water, playfully fending off a pesky remora before sensing the presence of a truly enormous shark. You turn around and the wide-bodied shark, measuring ...

One of these sea areas, Shiretoko, is the best in Japan to spot killer whales and is even home to a UNESCO natural World Heritage site, yet information on its killer whale population has remained ...

Well, this is a grim way to celebrate Whale Watch Week. For several days, a grisly scene has been playing out on the central Oregon coast: A piece of a dead whale (part of its head, to be specific) ...

Footage of federal agents violently accosting food cart vendors, ride share drivers, and other ordinary people rages across the internet. It’s become clear that inflicting just about any amount of ...

OCALA, Fla. — A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse after alleging that he suffered severe bodily injury when a handicapped toilet suddenly shattered while he was using it. The ...