The influx is likely due to a larger number of whales swimming into the bay, scientists said.

For more than 100 years, the Verdi building has stood on the corner of Columbus and Union in the North Beach area of San Francisco. But today, it is a ruin, crumbling away.

Six gray whales have been found dead in the wider San Francisco Bay Area in the last seven days, raising the total number of dead whales in the region to 15 for the year.

Six dead gray whales have been found in the area of San Francisco Bay over the last week, officials said Wednesday, in a year when there has been an unusually high number of sightings in the area.

Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay in just the past week alone, bringing the total number of stranded whales to 15 so far this year.

SAN FRANCISCO — Five gray whales have been found dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in less than one week, according to the California Academy of Sciences.

SAN FRANCISCO — Five gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that have washed up this year to 14, according to the ...

Six gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that have washed up this year to 15, according to the California Academy of ...

These strandings follow a similar influx of whale deaths in early April when three gray whales and one minke whale washed up around the bay over a week and a half span.