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Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again. At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow, ...
Tourists on a whale-watching boat off Australia witnessed five families of killer whales attack 150-ton mammal.
The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in ...
The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000-mile round trip migration from Alaska to their Mexican nurseries each year ...
While multiple kinds of whales frequent the Pacific coast, the spring season’s focus is migratory gray whales travelling ...
The grey whale, known as Little Patch, has been visiting the Puget Sound area nearly every year since 1991. A grey whale who ...
Orcas reside in and around the San Juan Islands of Washington as well as the rest of the West Coast. April-October are ideal times to spot them as they migrate and breed. Gray whales head for ...
Malnutrition, killer whale predation, entanglement and vessel strikes were documented as the main causes of death, researchers said. In 2023, gray whale numbers began to rebound to as many as 21,000.
Gray whales are dying in large numbers ... maneuver through discarded fishing lines and gear, dodge pods of killer whales waiting to tear apart defenseless calves, and swim through waters polluted ...