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 ...

A dead gray whale is pictured just offshore of Fort Point Rock Beach in San Francisco on April 4, 2025. (Photo: Josie Slaathaug/The Marine Mammal Center, NOAA Permit #26532) ...

The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000-mile round trip migration from Alaska to their Mexican nurseries each year, ... They make up most of the gray whales’ diet.

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

Gray whale sightings off the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast are at a 40-year low, according to local whale watchers. ... That reduces the whales’ natural diet.

Another gray whale was reported dead near Point Isabel in Richmond on Friday, marking the 19th such death in Bay Area waters this year. Researchers have not recorded this many gray whale fatalities ...

Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay area in the past week, bringing the total number of dead whales to 15 this year as authorities rush to figure out why.

SAN FRANCISCO — Six gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that have washed up this year to 15, according to the ...

The gray whale drifted overnight from the surf near Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach, where it was spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard, to a different location off Alameda on Monday, ...

Pacific gray whale numbers have dropped to their lowest point since the 1970s, with calf numbers also at a record low. The decline follows a previous "unusual mortality event" from 2019-2023, ...