Gray whales that have followed the same coastal migration corridor between Arctic feeding grounds and Mexican breeding lagoons for centuries are now turning into San Francisco Bay in growing numbers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of scientists set down their binoculars as fog drifted over the ocean and covered the rocky San Simeon coastline on a ...

Each year, Pacific gray whales migrate thousands of miles in what the Oceanic Society calls "one of Earth's greatest wildlife spectacles," heading south to stock up on food and welcome calves in ...

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 ...

For many gray whales, entering San Francisco Bay is a death sentence. Researchers tracking the animals between 2018 and 2025 determined that at least 18% of the individual gray whales photographed in ...

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 scientists ...

The dead whales appear to be emaciated, a sure sign of starvation, but scientists aren’t sure if the condition has been brought on from a decline of their food supply or overpopulation or even some ...

It was April 2026, and for days, locals had reported a very strange sight in the Willapa River in Washington state. A young male gray whale was swimming about 20 miles upriver in freshwater — strange ...

To monitor the gray whales, we conducted research surveys and collected photographs from whale-watching naturalists and community members who spotted whales in the bay. Gray whales have unique ...

A pair of scientists set down their binoculars as fog drifted over the ocean and covered the rocky San Simeon coastline on a recent Thursday afternoon. Normally, the scientists scan the horizon for ...