Oregon Tried To Dynamite A Whale Carcass, And You Can Imagine How It Went (Cruel Weird Awful 14)
n 1970, Oregon's problem was a whale carcass on the beach, and the solution officials in Oregon came up with literally blew up.
The Legend Of James Bartley, Who Was Supposedly Swallowed By A Whale (Cool Weird Awesome 943)
Supposedly this month in 1891 a sailor named James Bartley was swallowed by a whale and lived! But The Straight Dope took a closer look and found this story was almost certainly too good to be true.
Nearly Swallowed By Whale
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Pilot Whales Trick Their Predators By Mimicking Their Voices (Cool Weird Awesome 435)
A team out of New Curtin University in Australia has found that pilot whales appear to imitate one of their predators, tricking them away from the hunt. And in equally clever but much more irritating news, a neighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario reports squirrels are stealing the LED lights out of their holiday displays.
How Space Might Save The Whales (Cool Weird Awesome 153)
Science has brought whales and outer space together for the first time since the fourth Star Trek movie. The British Antarctic Survey has been partnering with researchers in Chile on a way to protect whales via satellite. Plus: the story of a paraglider who manages to land smoothly and carefully on a couch.
The Spy Whale Who Loved Me (Cool Weird Awesome 35)
The story of the whale wearing a GoPro that might be some kind of Russian surveillance agent is pretty wild, but it's not even close to the first time governments have turned to animals for surveillance purposes.