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Nearly two dozen whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months, according to animal rescue groups.

Sam Gattlin discovered the marine mammal center soon after moving to San Pedro from the U.K. Now, he comes by after work once a week to help clean up after the third feeding of the day.

Volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center release California sea lions Quly (L) and Togozees (R) back to their ocean home at Rodeo Beach in Marin County, California, on August 4, 2023.

Dead whales have been reported in the San Francisco Bay Area since March 30, when a female gray whale was found dead at Black ...

After the longest public closure since its founding, the Marine Mammal Center has opened its doors to visitors again with a new look. Founded in 1975, the Marin Headlands hospital serves animals ...

Bill Hunnewell knew he’d be helping out at Sausalito’s Marine Mammal Center. When the San Francisco resident retired from the corporate world five years ago, ...

Bay Area congressmembers want the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to investigate why gray whale deaths in the ...

A bottlenose dolphin found on Deal’s beach Sunday evening had numerous shark bites all over its body and was euthanized, the ...

Pacific Marine Mammal Center closed its doors to the public on Oct. 22. The closure is expected to last until the expansion project wraps up in the fourth quarter of 2024.