{"id":252471,"date":"2026-04-05T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:10:09","slug":"gray-whale-found-dead-in-the-san-francisco-bay-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252471\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray whale found dead in the San Francisco Bay \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another gray whale was found dead in the San Francisco Bay Friday, according to the Marine Mammal Center.<\/p>\n<p>The center said it will not perform necropsy because officials can&#8217;t physically get to it.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth dead whale spotted in the Bay Area since St. Patrick\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes following a recent surge of whale sightings in the Bay as the marine mammals migrate north.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, experts said at least 21 gray whales were found dead in the Bay and about half were struck by boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another gray whale was found dead in the San Francisco Bay Friday, according to the Marine Mammal Center.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-252471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}