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.

A dad out kayaking with his son got some pretty scary footage of his child being swallowed whole by a whale before getting ...

From marathon treks by gray whales across thousands of kilometres to shorter seasonal excursions by minkes, migration routes ...

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely on healthy oceans for food and livelihoods to support their families.

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

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...