45-foot-long dead whale washes up on San Francisco's most popular beach

A 45-foot-long dead whale washed ashore on San Francisco's Ocean Beach Sunday...

Gray whales usually pass through the Bay Area during their northern migration to Arctic waters in late March through April and it's not unusual for a few of them to die and be found on beaches in spring. But this body appeared in the region later than usual and it's adding to an astonishing number of dead gray whales in less than three months.

The number of dead gray whales observed has been increasing since 2019 and there have been 14 of them since April 2021 alone...

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