After a failed attempt to remove the 20-tonne whale from the beach, heavy machinery was required to lift the body from the ground before it was put in a truck and taken to the burial spot.

How do you remove a rotting whale? Well, it's not that simple. By Piper Duffy. By Chris Lewis. ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt. Topic: Whales. Thu 25 Jul Thursday 25 July Thu 25 Jul 2024 at 8:41pm.

Rotting carcass of humpback whale. He took the photos on Saturday, after initially thinking the shape was a boat. Alejandro Castro. Their main threats are entanglement in fishing gear, vessel ...

A picture shows the dead humpback whale on Rainbow Beach in Queensland, Australia. A company that normally moves trucks and other vehicles was called in to help remove its rotting carcass.

A rotting whale carcass that washes ashore can produce a smell so noxious that not even seagulls or flies will go near it; locals encountering a whale corpse have described the odor as something ...

This story was updated at 2:20 p.m. EST. Hauling a rotting whale across state lines, John Ososky recalled wanting to move quickly in his Chevy Silverado, looking for gas stations that had the ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...

Of course, in the Pacific Northwest, a beached sperm whale brings back memories of 1970 when KATU filmed state crews using dynamite to dispose of a rotting whale carcass in Florence.

The juvenile whale was seen swimming in a clockwise circle, making unusual noises and trailing two buoys. A team of wildlife experts had to move fast, but with plenty of patience, to save its life.

The Whale is next to the Red Funnel ferry terminal at Town Quay (Image: Associated British Ports) According to Historic England, it is not clear if the Whale was towed to Normandy in 1944 or was ...