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 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 number of gray whales migrating along the Pacific Coast of North America has steadily declined by nearly 40% from a 2016 peak, and the population produced its fewest calves on record this year ...

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

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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

The whale, which can weigh 60,000 pounds (27,215 kilograms), typically lives in the northern Pacific Ocean. The gray whale vanished from the Atlantic Ocean by the 18th century, but there have been ...

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.

Although they were once common throughout the Northern Hemisphere, gray whales are now mainly found in the North Pacific Ocean, according to NOAA. Gray whales disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean ...