A father-and-son kayaking expedition off the coast of Punta Arenas in Southern Chile has made headlines all over the world ...

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.

Last week, a kayaker in Chile learned just how dangerous it is to get too close to feeding humpback whales during an outing ...

A kayaker off the coast of Chile recently experienced a terrifying moment that seems straight out of a nature documentary—a ...

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.” ...

Primarily in open oceans, with nesting sites along the eastern ... and specialized feeding behaviors. For example, blue whales are filter feeders, using baleen plates to capture tiny organisms like ...

New research finds some baleen ... whales -- above 1,500 hertz. In contrast, flight species have streamlined and slender bodies adapted for speed, and typically disperse across wider open-ocean ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have ... and typically disperse across wider open-ocean regions for mating and calving, where they are able to flee ...

These whales typically have calves out in open waters so they can escape in any direction should danger appear. While studying baleen whales, Branch noticed a unique character trait about the flight ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Today, the National Museum of Natural History displays a piece of the stranded whale’s baleen—the bristle-lined mouth plates they use to capture food. It also exhibits its likely cause of ...