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In 1970, near Florence, Ore., some 75 gawkers gathered on a local beach to gaze at the putrid 8 ton carcass of a 45 foot ...

The number of Bitcoin whale wallets has spiked as the crypto markets struggled this week, with Bitcoin sinking as low as $89,550 on Tuesday. Data from the crypto analytics platform Glassnode shows ...

Oysters are a delicacy that connects people across time and coasts, and they are a bedrock of the Pacific Northwest diet.Though available year-round, they have Family of Eric Tamiyasu seeks justice as ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

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 ...

• Get ready for a hot, hot day at City Council, in which officials will hear public testimony on Councilor Angelita Morillo's very good idea to redirect funds from Mayor Wilson's homeless sweeps ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

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 ...

A wildlife veterinarian who performs necropsies shares what it takes to investigate a whale stranding. When a whale dies, it often decomposes quite quickly—the process starts within hours of an animal ...

The number of North Atlantic right whales has grown slightly, continuing a recent positive trend that has researchers "cautiously optimistic" about the critically endangered species. The whale ...