Close encounters between humans and whales are rare, but they do happen. While most of these incidents end with awe and a story to tell, they also raise a terrifying question. What if a whale actually ...

A good portion of the pastor in me wants to be outraged this week. Coming back from a Fourth of July break to read about the goings on in Washington, D.C., I started to fill with indignation. Thanks ...

Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

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A man who lived through a terrifying ordeal has now had a simulation depict what happened when he was swallowed by a whale ...

In the wild, bizarre things happen, but it’s not every day that you hear about a seal finding itself caught in the mouth of a Humpback whale! Yet, that happened recently in the waters off Anacortes, ...

In a more recent video, Tiffany revealed even more graphic details and a personal account of one of the parties from a man she named Jonah, you know, like the whale story.

In a video, a man captured the jaws of a humpback whale poke out of the water around his son's kayak, close around him, and disappear into the ocean.

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being swallowed.

A man swallowed up by a humpback whale before being spat out. Adrián Simancas was near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan with his dad.

A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.