Whale Watching Week means better views and nicer weather to see gray whales. However, gray whale calf numbers are at historic ...

The gray whales are on their annual migration path between breeding grounds in Mexico and feeding grounds off the coast of ...

The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...

In 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event” for the eastern North Pacific gray whales. That's a formal process that allows officials to ...

Get up early. Winds, and therefore the waves, are mellower in the morning. Later in the day, the sun may cast a glare on the ...

which resulted in a higher-than-normal number of gray whale strandings in the eastern North Pacific population. A total of 690 strandings were reported in that time, according to the National ...

Pacific gray whales frolicking off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, created stunning rainbows in their blow. According to the City of Rancho Palos Verdes: “The Pacific gray whales’ annual ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

PORT ANGELES — The Makah Tribe has submitted a permit application to NOAA Fisheries that will allow it to hunt up to 25 eastern North Pacific gray whales over a 10-year period, starting with one ...