A young Venezuelan packrafter briefly became a modern-day Jonah when a humpback whale gulped him up in its jaws and closed ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

A new study by Trevor Branch at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences shows that some species of baleen whales ...

Watch this clip of a kayaker getting swallowed by a humpback and spat out and then read about how it could happen.

A stunning video from Chile shows a humpback whale briefly scooping a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed.

Adrian Simancas was paddling off the Patagonian city of Punta Arenas on Saturday when the giant baleen ... a killer whale,' Adrian said after the unexpected encounter with the humpback whale. ' ...

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.

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae ... They are mysticetes, which means that they have a structure called a baleen instead of teeth. A baleen is a fascinating modification of their upper ...

When Adrian Simancas climbed into his kayak to paddle through the Strait of Magellan, the kayaker didn't expect to end up ...

More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face predatory attacks ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan. 31 in Marine Mammal ...

While this isn't the first time a human has ended up in a humpback whale's mouth, it's not an everyday occurrence. "The whale was just as surprised as the kayaker.” ...