Susanne Rust13:25, May 25 2021
MERRILL GOSHO/NOAA
70 grey whales have washed up on the beaches and coasts of Mexico, the US and Canada this year (file photo).
The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive grey whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon (local time). The latest, a 47-foot-long adult male, is the 10th grey whose carcass has ended up on Bay Area shores. A pygmy sperm whale and a fin whale also have been found fatally beached. A cause of death has not been determined, and a necropsy was not performed, although tissue samples of the whale were collected for further study by the California Academy of Sciences. The carcass will be towed to sea.
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California s coronavirus positive test rate was at a pandemic low Monday, May 24, 2021.California Department of Public Health
At the beginning of the year, California was hitting pandemic record after record in the midst of a terrible winter coronavirus surge.
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A dozen dead whales have washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area
Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2021
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A dead whale washed up on the southern end of San Francisco s Baker Beach, just below the pump house. Ten grey whale carcasses have washed up in Bay Area beaches so far in 2021, a number experts say fits a trend in recent years of unusually high whale deaths.Barbie Halaska / Marine Mammal Center
The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive gray whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon.
A dozen dead whales have washed ashore in the Bay Area signaling another grim year Quick Take
Ten gray whales are among the massive mammals that have been found beached in the San Francisco Bay Area this year, suggesting another grim year for the species.
The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive gray whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon.
The latest a 47-foot-long adult male is the 10th gray whose carcass has ended up on Bay Area shores. A pygmy sperm whale and a fin whale also have been found fatally beached.
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