According to officials Pacific Marine Mammal Center.
Glenn Gray, CEO of Laguna Beach-based nonprofit, said the cause of death of young adult women is not yet known. Staff at the center performed an autopsy on Saturday morning.
Gray said the whales showed no signs of physical harm. Such marks are often seen if a whale is bitten by a shark or is entangled in a fishing gear.
Samples from the human body have been sent to the laboratory for testing.
“It may take a few weeks,” he said. “We will share with the public what we know.”
The gray whale has died this year, scientists say.
At least 70 whales died Steven Swartz, a marine scientist who studies gray whales, said it has been in the lagoon in Baja California, Mexico since the beginning of this year.
Now, whales head north to summer feeding sites in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
Three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay in recent weeks.
Researchers are not sure why whales are more numerous. The bodies of some dead whales appear to have been exhausted and malnutrition, leading some scientists to think the problem may be the lack of food.
Since 1979, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, who led Rancho Palos Verdes in the Los Angeles chapter of the American Celestial Society’s gray whale census, said she and her volunteers moved to the north this spring and the south over the past winter.
Earlier this month, a whale spent a few days swimming in Long Beach Harbor. Despite the efforts of marine wildlife experts Rearrange it back to deep water.
Investigators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tried to determine what caused the death of Minke Whale.
