From the end of December through March, great gray whales from Siberian and
Alaskan waters swim 6,000 to 10,000 km to the warm waters of Baja's lagoons to give birth and raise their calves for three months before starting their long journey back to their feeding grounds.
Not exact matches
The ancestor, Arktocara yakataga, was a dolphin that
swam in chilly
Alaskan waters — where the skull was found — 25 million years ago.
Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants
swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and
Alaskan waters to the warmer
waters off the Mexican coast.
But after reports that someone doing an aerial survey for bowhead whales in
Alaskan waters spotted around 10 bears
swimming well offshore, the World Wildlife Fund distributed an unrelated picture (above) of a
swimming bear, taken earlier this month, to drive home the idea that melting ice is making times tough up north.