God sends a great storm and the sailors throw Jonah overboard and he is promptly swallowed by the whale. Jonah spends three days in the whale's stomach praying to God for forgiveness and when a ...

The biblical story of Jonah has always seemed rather fantastical; after all, who could survive in the belly of a whale? Since when do whales swallow people? Well, since this week, apparently ...

This year’s edition of the festival offers inventive visions, in fiction and nonfiction, of passionate lives amid difficult circumstances.

“Holy Jesus, it’s like Jonah and the whale! I’m so glad it wasn’t a big old shark!” the user wrote alluding to the biblical allegory. According to the Bible, Jonah was a prophet who ...

Still, although Simancas felt he had been swallowed, humpback whales have filter feeders which cannot completely eat someone ...

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.

If you remember your Bible stories, you'll be familiar with the one about a whale swallowing Jonah, who opted out of following God's instructions to go to Nineveh. Jonah was stuck inside the ...

A Venezuelan kayaker is recovering from his ordeal after a huge humpback whale briefly scooped him up in its mouth off the ...

In the WWII series World on Fire, as seen on MASTERPIECE, Jonah Hauer-King plays Harry Chase, a young British translator with a flair for languages, deceit and heartbreak, stationed in Warsaw ...