Continued low calf count indicates that reproduction remains depressed. The eastern North Pacific population of gray whales ...

NOAA declared an official Pacific gray whale “unusual mortality event” in December 2018. It wasn’t lifted until November 2023, with peak whale strandings occurring over a two-year period ...

The number of eastern north Pacific gray whales increased an estimated 33% compared to a year ago, offering continued evidence the gigantic mammals are recovering from what biologists termed a ...

Eastern North Pacific gray whales travel roughly 12,000 miles round trip between the summer feeding grounds in the Arctic and the warmer waters of Mexico, where the animals breed, give birth and ...

Eastern North Pacific gray whales cruise the Pacific coastline every year as they migrate 6,000 miles north from the Baja peninsula to their summer feeding grounds in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

The most recent data from NOAA shows a major decline in gray whale populations compared to a year ago. Here's what to know.

The population numbers of the North Pacific gray whale had a decline during the Unusual Mortality Event, going from an estimated 20,500 whales in 2019 to 14,526 whales in 2023.

"Once common throughout the Northern Hemisphere, gray whales are now only regularly found in the North Pacific Ocean where there are two extant populations, one in the eastern and one in the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries ago — an exciting discovery, but one they said ...

Eastern North Pacific gray whales cruise the Pacific coastline every year as they migrate 6,000 miles north from the Baja peninsula to their summer feeding grounds in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.