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 ...

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 dead gray whale was found on Bolinas Beach in Marin County on March 25. The team of experts concluded the whale died as a result of blunt force trauma because of a vessel strike.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The number of gray whales migrating along the Pacific Coast of North America has steadily declined by nearly 40% from a 2016 peak, and the population produced its fewest calves on record this year ...

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, known for their migrations along the Oregon Coast in winter and spring, dropped to an estimated 12,900 adults and 85 calves in the latest data taken by the National Oceanic and ...