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.

“I thought I was dead,” Adrián told The Associated Press. “I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.” He described ...

A man who was swept up in a humpback whale’s mouth before being released has described his terror during the extraordinary moment caught on video.

"When I turned around, I felt on my face like a slimy texture; I saw colors like dark blue, white, something approaching from ...

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"Another day and I'd be playing drums with Lemmy in heaven," Mikkey Dee said of his near-death experience. By Tyler Jenke Former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee says he’s lucky to be alive ...

The exhausted whale was finally freed on Friday afternoon, with rescuers continuing to monitor its movements. A member of the public first spotted the distressed whale at around 8.30am on Thursday and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marine scientists are investigating yet another whale death after the carcass of a sperm whale washed up on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, one of at least a half dozen to wash ashore in ...