The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in ...

a region of the North Pacific that’s a shallow-water feeding area of the Western Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus). Affecting a genetically isolated sub-population ...

San Francisco Bay has seen a recent influx of gray whales since late March, including one that washed ashore dead on a Marin County beach over the weekend.

On March 29, the Marine Mammal Center was notified by the National Park Service staff that a dead gray whale was found on Alcatraz Island, according to an April 1 news release by the Marine Mammal ...

Magdalena Bay, one of three lagoons on Baja California’s Pacific coast, is home to more than 20,000 California gray whales each winter. This extraordinary inland water system is the place to be to ...

"Spring is a great time for whale watching because the gray whales are usually closer to shore on their return trip, typically around a mile or so out, and they might have calves in tow," said ...