Cal Academy reported 14 whales have died in 2025 – 13 gray whales and one minke whale. Since May 21 alone, stranded whales died near Alcatraz, Point Bonita, Berkeley, the Farallon Islands, and ...

Five more gray whales were found dead in the San Francisco Bay Area within the past week, bringing this year's total number of whale deaths up to 14.

Five gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area region in the past week or so, bringing that unfortunate number to more than a dozen this year, the California Academy of Sciences said ...

Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region's 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced Wednesday. The California Academy of Sciences and The ...

In 2025, scientists have reported "an unusually high number of sightings in the San Francisco Bay this year, with 33 individual gray whales confirmed. In 2024, only six gray whales were sighted ...

This year’s whale deaths are outpacing the high numbers seen during the unusual mortality event from 2019 to 2023.

Six dead gray whales have been found in the area of San Francisco Bay over the last week, officials said Wednesday, in a year when there has been an unusually high number of sightings in the area.

So far, 33 gray whales have been spotted in the area, compared to just four gray whale sightings in 2024. About one-third of the whales this year have stayed in the Bay for at least 20 days.

Another gray whale was reported dead near Point Isabel in Richmond on Friday, marking the 19th such death in Bay Area waters this year. Researchers have not recorded this many gray whale fatalities ...

Another dead whale has washed up along a Bay Area shoreline, this time in Richmond. The Marine Mammal Center said the latest death involves a sub-adult gray whale. "Gray whales feed up in the ...