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Gray Whales Are Washing Up Dead on the West Coast
The bodies kept appearing out of nowhere. In March a whale corpse was found floating in San Francisco Bay. Then, in April, a whale was found dead and beached in Oregon. That same month, another whale, this one a juvenile, was found lifeless and lodged among woody debris in a Washington State river, miles from the ocean.
As of the middle of August, 187 gray whales have been found dead this year along the West Coast.
Gray whales can reach 49 feet long and weigh up to 90,000 pounds. Each year they make one of the longest known mammal migrations on Earth, a 10,000-mile round trip between Mexico…
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