More gray whales are entering San Francisco Bay, delighting spectators but increasing the risk of deadly encounters with ...

San Francisco Bay is known for cargo ships, ferries, sailboats, and one of the world's most recognizable bridges. It is not typically known as a destination for large whales. Yet in recent years, ...

Dead, emaciated gray whales have been washing up on Washington state shores at a shocking pace over the last few months. Since March, 21 whales have turned up dead along the shoreline, according to ...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — A gray whale found near Ocean Shores has added to a growing number of deaths across Washington this year, as researchers point to an ongoing pattern affecting the species. A team ...

Thermal cameras just installed in the San Francisco Bay this May have been picking up whale spouts nearly every day.

Off the coast of Hawaii, a mother whale was caught on camera doing something rarely witnessed in the wild, and the footage ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We've been tracking the movements and, unfortunately, the deaths of gray whales in and around San Francisco Bay. For researchers, those events are part of an effort to better ...

While gazing northwest from Fraser Point across the daunting, roughly eight-mile-wide Santa Cruz Passage toward Santa Rosa Island, I heard the distinct pop of a nearby whale spout. It’s always been a ...

Gray whales undertake one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal on Earth. They spend the summers feeding in the nutrient-rich waters of the Arctic before traveling about 12,000 miles round ...