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The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [5] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of 14.9 meters (49 ft), a weight of up to 41 tonnes (90,000 lb) and lives between 55 and 70 years, although one female was estimated to be 75–80 years of age.
The agency has estimated the total number of eastern north Pacific Gray whales to be between 17,400 to 21,300, an increase from an estimated 13,200 to 15,960 whales last year.
Between 2018 and 2023, hundreds of gray whale carcasses washed up along the West Coast. A food shortage led to the phenomenon, which is over, scientists say.
A beloved whale ditched his migration to Mexico and went to Washington’s Puget Sound months early to snack on shrimp, a whale group said. Little Patch was spotted and identified Dec. 11 in the ...
Drone footage shared by Monterey Bay Whale Watch in Monterey Bay, California, shows two sightings of grey whales on their southbound migration, from Alaska to Mexico.Attracted to the bay by ...
Gray whale & houses, Depoe Bay, September 2015. The Depoe Bay Whale Watching Center, also known as the Depoe Bay Ocean Wayside, is an Oregon State Parks-staffed visitor center in Depoe Bay, Oregon, U.S. to help visitors observe whale migration and provide information about whales and other marine mammals, including history, economics, and their environmental and ecological influences.
Typically, gray whales feed only in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters during the summer months, when the cold seafloor is filled with life and millions, if not billions, of small shrimp-like critters ...
Atlantic gray whale Population of the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea: Last recorded in 1760. The same species survives on the Pacific Ocean. [43] A single individual, presumably dispersed over the Arctic, was observed off Florida in 2023 and Nantucket, Massachusetts in 2024. [44]