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 ...

Whale Tale A cruise ship came to port on Saturday with a surprising and stinky stowaway stuck to its bow: a dead and rotting whale, the New York Times reports .

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...