1. In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.

2. Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.

3. Gray whales hug the west coast as they move south.

4. A gray whale looks up at tourists in the Laguna San Ignacio on Mexico's Baja California peninsula February 8, 2006.

5. From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.

6. First Putin the conservation warrior joined naturalists chasing a gray whale across the North Pacific, and fired a skin-sampling harpoon into it with a crossbow.

7. Surfacing in warm winter waters off the Baja California coast, a gray whale flashes its baleen plates by a boat.

8. Osedax were first discovered alive in 2002 in Monterey Bay, California, where they were living on the bones of a decaying gray whale.

9. Robert Vrijenhoek's team discovered them five years ago eating the bones of a dead gray whale off California, and since then they've shown up in whalebones around the world.