Gray whales dying

Officials are responding to a dead gray whale found beached on the west side of Camano Island. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Fisheries West Coast Region posted about the massive stranded mammal, saying a necropsy would be performed.

A special group of gray whales, known locally as "the Sounders," takes an annual detour from their coastal migration to feed on ghost shrimp in the tidelands of Puget Sound. Normally they start showing up in March but for the past two years they have been arriving early and growing in number.

Reporter Bellamy Pailthorp on why this was a favorite story of 2021: I did this story in my efforts to learn more about the region’s gray whales as we…

Another gray whale has died off the Washington coast. The animal was confirmed dead after stranding in the tidal areas of north Port Susan, east of Camano…

Inside Seattle Pacific University’s Eaton Hall, a small group of students huddle around the huge skull of a gray whale, whose bones they’ve all been…

More than 30 gray whales have washed ashore in Washington state this year. But that’s only a fraction of the number of stranded whales seen along the West…