A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was ...

That thought became a reality on Feb. 8 when kayaker Adrián Simancas was paddling off the coast of Chile and a humpback whale suddenly breached the surface and swallowed him whole. In footage ...

But it was a whale," he said. "So I didn't have enough time to realize that I was not in danger." Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images These incidents involving humpback whales are rare.

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) get their name from the prominent hump in front of their dorsal fin.They can weigh up to 40 tons and reach 60 feet in length, so they are not easy to miss ...

Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan when a humpback whale surfaced unexpectedly.

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A Chilean man was given the scare of a lifetime when he briefly ended up in the mouth of a humpback whale while kayaking off Chilean Patagonia, reports say. The father of ...