Everyone knows the famous scene from the fable Pinocchio in which the whale swallows the boy. But can whales really swallow people - as can be seen in a recent video? PETBOOK investigated the question ...

Adrián Simancas , a 24-year-old kayaker in Chile, detailed what it was like to be in the mouth of a humpback whale as his father captured the jarring encounter on video on Feb. 8.

There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...