Federal officials are reporting the lowest numbers of gray whales counted since the 1970s. More than 20 have died in S.F. Bay ...

A dead gray whale that was found last week in the East Bay was found to have died from a suspected vessel strike, according ...

The carcasses of four gray whales have been found around the San Francisco Bay Area in eight days – an alarming string of deaths that constitutes an unusual mortality event, defined by the ...

This year’s whale deaths are outpacing the high numbers seen during the unusual mortality event from 2019 to 2023.

A gray whale hit and killed by a shipping vessel washed up at the San Leandro Marina on April 7, 2023. Each year, close to a dozen whales are hit and killed by ships in the Bay Area.

A gray whale swims into Los Angeles Harbor on Feb. 23, 2021. It’s not unusual for gray whales to stay in the harbor for a few weeks in February and March before migrating farther north toward ...

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 ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Gray whales are "easily distinguished from other whale species by their lack of a dorsal fin, mottled gray and white skin, and dorsal hump followed by pronounced ridges," according to the New ...

Thousands of gray whales with their curved mottled-gray back or a heart-shaped blow swim past Ventura each year. Whale watching boats typically see them on both waves of the trip.

Somewhere in the Mediterranean, a 26-foot-long gray whale is exploring harbors and inlets as it tries to find its way back out to the Atlantic after veering thousands of miles off course.