A female gray whale washed up dead on Black Sands Beach, a tucked away part of the Marin Headlands, on Sunday — an ...

They eat by rolling on their side while on the sea floor, swimming slowly, as they filter the food through their baleen ...

They need this energy for an amazing journey: As Costa points out, baleen whales migrate thousands of miles to their winter breeding grounds in the tropics—without eating. For example, gray whales ...

Typically, some gray whales are born on the way south ... If the whales aren't able to eat enough during the spring and summer, they may not have enough nutrition stored up for the migration ...

They eat by rolling on their side while on the sea floor, swimming slowly, as they filter the food through their baleen plates, the NOAA said. March is the peak time for gray whales to migrate ...