Place. Taiwan. Year. 2004. What. Whale explosion.

In 2004, Taiwanese Whale Biologist Professer Wang is called to the scene of a washed up humpback whale at a nearby oyster farm. Over the next days, as he and his team begin to move the gigantic mammal to his laboratory to perform an autopsy to determine the reason for death. Unknowing to the scientists, there has been a buildup of decomposing gases rumbling inside the decaying carcass.

As they approach the laboratory, they realize that the animal is too big to get in to the gate and re-route the tests to a conservation area across the city. In the middle of the city and during morning rush hour, the buldup of gas is too much for the whale blubber to hold. It explodes spraying hundreds of kilos of whale intestines, blubber and organs around neighboring streets.

Years later, researchers analyze what exactly occurred inside the whale and how it resulted in such an enormous explosition. Click below to find out what they find.