Imagine slicing into a juicy watermelon on a hot summer day, only to find it has spontaneously exploded, releasing swarms of maggots and a foul odor so potent it could singe your nose hairs.

Watermelons can offer a nice explosion of flavor in your mouth, but they shouldn’t be spontaneously combusting. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what some fans of the popular fruit are worried about ...

“It was foaming like a volcano, so I thought this is not good,” retired biology teacher Julie Raines tells Inside Edition. Americans eat 5.1 billion pounds of watermelon each year. But this year comes ...

One plump beauty, neatly placed on an amber-hued marble countertop, was foaming at the mouth. Or the rear. It’s hard to tell which end is which with melons. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Watermelons are indicative of summertime, sunny days and the languorous attitude often associated with those halcyon months. A pretty clear-cut food safety issue, these watermelons should be discarded ...

If we had to pick a favorite summer fruit, watermelon would easily take the top spot. There’s truly nothing like eating a slice of juicy watermelon at a picnic, on the beach, or at a backyard barbecue ...

Bouts of extreme summer heat are causing melons to undergo the same process that happens during wine and beer making. When sugar is converted into alcohol, CO2 gas builds up inside the fruit. Good ...

Some people are freaking out after their watermelons started to explode out of nowhere. It happened to retired biology teacher Julie Raines. When her watermelon started hissing, she took it outside ...