Last year, whales did not arrive in San Francisco Bay until Feb. 26. In 2024, the first sighting was on March 11; in 2023, ...

Registration is open for the trip billed as “the journey of a lifetime” by its sponsors, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. The on-sea adventure — from March 6 to 14 — takes participants south ...

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Each year, gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) complete one of the most impressive journeys in the animal kingdom. They travel thousands of miles between their Arctic feeding grounds and the warmer ...

Gray whales are showing up in San Francisco Bay ahead of schedule this winter, with at least three different animals ...

Gray whales swim 12,000 miles a year—here's where you can see them this winter.

A California whale-watching tour guide recorded footage of one of his favorite whales exhaling off the San Diego coast, with ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth gray ...

Recently, while sailing with friends on San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed the sight of harbor porpoises, cormorants, pelicans, seals and sea lions — and then the spouting plume and glistening back of a ...

Footage shows boaters racing over the whales seconds after they had surfaced.

It's the ninth such whale death in the region this year. A dead gray whale washed ashore California's San Francisco Bay Area on Monday -- the ninth one this year, scientists said. The dead whale was ...