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 ...

In a first-of-its-kind occurrence, three endangered blue whales were recently spotted in two separate instances off the New England coast, according to New England Aquarium researchers. On Feb. 27, ...

Local charters are reporting that gray whales — the celebrities of this weekend’s Festival of Whales in the Dana Point Harbor — are being seen on nearly each trip out. In its 55th year, the three-day ...

This weekend, Dana Point Harbor dives into the annual Festival of Whales. Now in it’s 55th year, the three-day-long event invites locals and visitors to mark the gray whale migration with a parade, ...

Dana Point is one of California’s best coastal destinations for year-round whale watching. While two major migrations happen annually — gray whales move November through April with peaks in February ...

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Scientists are investigating the remains of a deceased male Fin whale discovered in the surf in Barnegat Light on Feb. 20, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. The stranding ...

On March 7, 1949, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were stationed on a boat called the R/V Atlantis that was sailing off the coast of Bermuda. They lowered a primitive ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A whale-sized tragedy has washed up on a SoCal beach. Beachgoers spotted the body of a gnarly, rotting 10-ton humpback whale lying on Newport Beach Wednesday. The body of a 30-foot whale washed ashore ...

A dead whale washed up on the sand in Newport Beach on Wednesday, with authorities assessing how the mammal died — and how to get it off of the popular beach. The 27-foot whale was first spotted ...

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...