When a humpback whale became entangled in a craypot line off Kaikōura last week, witnesses described it thrashing in distress ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

This entangled seal looked normal from the outside, but rescuers quickly discovered horrifying hidden trauma beneath its skin. Fishing line had cut deep into the poor animal’s body over time, causing ...

Two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts, and one is likely to die from its injuries, the federal government said. They are North Atlantic right whales, ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three scientists who made groundbreaking contributions in understanding one of the most mysterious of all natural phenomena: quantum entanglement. In the ...

The two whales have been identified as a juvenile male — which authorities think will “likely to die” — and a 13-year-old female NOAA Fisheries Scientists have reported that two endangered whales have ...

SEATTLE — A transient orca was able to free itself from a crab pot on Wednesday after more than seven hours. Reports came in around 10 a.m. of an orca that appeared to be entangled in a crab pot near ...

Chaotic speckle: a pattern resulting from light being scrambled by a complex medium such as a multimode optical fibre. (Courtesy: M Malik and S Goel) Light passing through a disordered (or “complex”) ...