{"id":570925,"date":"2026-04-08T02:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:16:36","slug":"3-gray-whales-found-dead-in-washington-including-2-malnourished-on-ocean-shores-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570925\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Gray whales found dead in Washington, including 2 malnourished on Ocean Shores beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCEAN SHORES, Wash. \u2014 Marine biologists are investigating three Gray whales found dead in Washington State in recent days, with two washing up on the coastline and a third dying in a river.<\/p>\n<p>According to the non-profit Cascadia Research Collective, two dead Gray whales washed up in Ocean Shores on April 3. The whales, one male and the other female, were both malnourished.<\/p>\n<p>The  male had \u201csignificant trauma to the head\u201d that could have been from being struck by a ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe female was not lactating and would not have been nursing a calf,\u201d biologists from Cascadia Research Collective said.<\/p>\n<p>A third juvenile Gray whale was seen a few times in the Willapa River last week, but later died.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/whale-washes-ashore-near-florence-dead-carcass-oregon-lane-county-state-parks-ocean-biologist-necropsy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dead whale washes ashore along Oregon coast in Lane County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, biologists closely monitored the juvenile in the north fork of the Willapa. On Saturday, however, they confirmed the whale had died and they were working with local groups to conduct an examination.<\/p>\n<p>They ask people to steer clear of the whales if they come across them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGray whales are generally solitary and do not travel in family groups; the timing and proximity of these strandings are considered to be most likely the result of general migration patterns, tides and currents,\u201d the nonprofit said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCEAN SHORES, Wash. \u2014 Marine biologists are investigating three Gray whales found dead in Washington State in recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-570925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}