Gray whales disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean by the 18th century and have only been found up until recently in Northern Pacific waters Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

Gray whales are known to frequent the Pacific Ocean today, but they disappeared from the Atlantic in the 18th century. Only five gray whales were seen in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters in the ...

Despite disappearing from the Atlantic Ocean by the 18th century, the species has been making a comeback to the area. In fact, there have been five observations of gray whales in the Atlantic ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Gray whale spotted near Sunny Isles Beach There ... there's less sea ice in certain seasons to be able to access the Atlantic ocean again," she said.

describe the gray whale migration route and ... North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian and Arctic. Essential Principle #5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales ...