Unusually large numbers of gray whales near Kodiak Island are giving Alaskan communities and marine scientists an uncommon ...

At least 20 gray whales have stranded in California this year as West Coast deaths reach 145, per NOAA-linked data.

For most people, San Francisco Bay is associated with ferries, cargo ships, sailboats, and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Recently, however, another visitor has been drawing attention. An increasing ...

SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal ...

A young gray whale that stunned southwest Washington residents by swimming about 20 miles up the Willapa River this week has died, according to Cascadia Research Collective. In a Facebook update ...

Just two days after a young gray whale stunned southwest Washington by swimming about 20 miles up the Willapa River, two adult gray whales washed ashore dead Friday at Ocean Shores, about 20 miles ...

Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply. But this ...

At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern over the past few years, and they are raising concerns among marine biologists ...