SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists. Twenty-two carcasses have been found so far this spring, many of them battered by collisions with boats. Dead and dying on beaches, in harbors and up narrow rivers, … Continue reading Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’