A humpback whale appeared to swallow then spit out a kayaker in a viral video filmed off the coast of Chile. But was he actually in any danger?

Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.

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.

In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat […] ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

Sei whales are comparatively thinner and less blubbery than other baleen whales, which is why they were only hunted from the early 20th century and onwards. However, the over-exploitation of other ...

A sperm whale washed ashore on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod Sunday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement. The most recent whale discovery is part of a series of whale ...

An organization fighting offshore windmill farms is seeking a federally protected migration route along the Jersey Shore for an endangered whale species. If successful, the move could seal off ...

An organization fighting offshore windmill farms is seeking a federally protected migration route along the Jersey Shore for an endangered whale species. If successful, the move could seal off that ...

A humpback whale has got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope at a fish farm off Skye. Organic Sea Harvest said it had suspended normal operations at its Invertote site in the north of ...