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

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

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

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 ...

More than 680 gray whales have washed up or been found dead on North America’s Pacific shores over the last four years, a rapid die-off that has puzzled and frightened scientists. The National ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...