The season of migration has come again to the warm blue waters off the coast of Mexico. Mother gray whales are nursing their newborn calves, plumping them up for the 6,000-mile trip to summer ...

Gray whales migrate to Alaska's Arctic each year to feast on muck-dwelling creatures on the bottom of the Bering Sea. But during the Ice Age, the Bering Sea went dry. How did they survive?

Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University ...

Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University ...

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 ...

Dear EarthTalk: Why are so many gray whales washing up dead on west coast beaches this spring? — Bill W., Camden, ME It’s definitely been a rough spring for Northern Pacific gray whales making ...

OREGON, USA — Gray whales visit Oregon's coast every summer. And every summer Leigh Torres is out on the ocean right there with them. "We do these sort of health check-ups on individual whales ...

Gray whales are very flexible in the diet they can eat, so they are willing to forage for other food if their preferred amphipods aren’t available in sufficient numbers.

SAN IGNACIO, Mexico — For thousands of years, the gray whales of the eastern Pacific have undertaken one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal — starting in the cold waters of … ...

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.