A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral as one of the most remarkable footage ...

A humpback whale appeared to swallow then spit out a kayaker in a viral video filmed off the coast of Chile. But was he actually in any danger?

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.

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song. Humpback whale song is a striking example of a ...