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SAN FRANCISCO — Six gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that have washed up this year to 15, according to the California ...

Two gray whales washed up dead in the San Francisco Bay near Richmond over the past week, bringing the year’s total whale deaths to 22 in and around the bay, according to the Marine Mammal Center. The ...

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another ...

"While not the outcome we hoped for, it was in the best interest of this whale," the Marine Mammal Center said Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of ...

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 ...