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.

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

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...

So, if humpbacks are not trying to eat humans, why do they swallow us? The answer is that they do it by accident. Humpback whales can be highly energetic and often jump above the surface of the ...

While studying baleen whales, Branch noticed a unique character trait about the flight group, and it all had to do with the sounds they made ... from how they communicate to where they’re found to ...

Humpback whales cannot physically eat a person due to their incredibly ... Adrian told CNN: "Whales do not swallow people, they have a very small oesophagus and a mechanism by which they rise ...

“The headline should be changed to ‘Person spends a brief amount of time in a whale’s mouth due to a whale just doing its own thing, and then realising that it doesn’t eat humans ...

What do scientists ... disprove that people eating peanut butter makes them more likely to smoke,” Baumgartner said. “Same thing with ‘pile driving makes the whales batty.’ ...

But exactly where they do this is a mystery ... a nuisance fish that attaches to large animals like the whale shark. Silky sharks and trevallies eat the remoras. Three ocean currents collide ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat ... Although wild killer whales do not intentionally harm ...