4 Dead Whales Wash Ashore on San Francisco Bay Area Beaches

4 Dead Whales Wash Ashore on San Francisco Bay Area Beaches
Barbie Halaska, (L) necropsy manager with The Marine Mammal Center, and Elizabeth Douglas (R) examine a dead juvenile Gray Whale on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore in Point Reyes Station, Calif., on May 25, 2019. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Four dead gray whales washed ashore on San Francisco Bay area beaches in nine days, with experts announcing that two of the giant aquatic mammals died from ship strikes and an investigation is ongoing Saturday on the other two.

Biologists with the non-profit Marine Mammal Center in California said in a release Saturday that two dead whales washed ashore in the Bay area on Thursday, joining two more that were discovered dead in area beaches since March 31.