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Starvation decimated the gray whales off the Pacific coast. Can the Giants recover?

The rotting carcass of a gray whale attracts the attention of visitors at Muir Beach in San Francisco in April 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along the Pacific Coast of North America about six years ago, oceanographers could only speculate about the cause: Was… Read More »