A young grey whale has been sighted off the southern French coast in recent days, lost in the Mediterranean and trying unsuccessfully to make it back to its natural habitat, the northern Pacific.

The grey whale has been extinct off our coasts since the 17th century, the time of Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Battle of Kinsale. But it could come up trumps among the winners and losers of ...

The beached whale’s corpse shifted along with the crashing waves. She had dents and holes on her tail and appeared to have a ...

The gray whale population was large, at about 27,430 between 2015-2016. In the following years, a decline started from 2019-2023 to below 15,000 that was considered as unusual mortality event. It ...

Doreen Cunningham’s Soundings is a memoir centred on the journey of grey whales from Mexico to the Arctic Circle. Photograph: Philip Thurston . Catherine Cleary. Mon Oct 23 2023 - 05:00.

Gray whales are listed as a species of “least concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which keeps a “Red List” of animals at threat.

Dozens of gray whales are dying in Pacific Ocean waters again this year and human-caused climate change may be to blame, scientists say. At least 70 whales have died since the start of the year along ...

Eastern North Pacific gray whales cruise the Pacific coastline every year as they migrate 6,000 miles north from the Baja peninsula to their summer feeding grounds in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

A grey whale known as Little Patch has been mesmerizing onlookers in the waters off of Vancouver for weeks, sparking a sense of connection as it stops to feed in the busy region before migrating ...