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 eastern North Pacific gray whale travels over 4,000 miles a year each way up and down the west coast of North America between feeding grounds in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia in ...

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 ...

It's mid-January 2021, and the first gray whales from the eastern North Pacific population have started to arrive in the breeding lagoons in Baja California, Mexico.

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.

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 … ...

"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 ...

Not only was it simply a beautiful sight – but it could signal that the gray whales are making their way back down the coast to mate in warmer waters off Mexico after a slow start to the ...

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.

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 ...