Adrián Simancas compared the incident to Geppetto and Pinocchio’s escape from the mouth of a whale in the classic tale A 24-year-old man who was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale is getting ...

Humpback whales have narrow throats "about the size of a household pipe" designed for swallowing small fish and shrimp, ...

Now to a whale of a tale, a literal whale. It resembles the biblical Jonah or young Pinocchio, except no lies here. This really happened. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Father and son Dall and Adrian Simancas ...

And the sea creature that swallows Geppetto and Pinocchio is a giant shark, not a whale. 8. Cliff Edwards, a.k.a. Ukelele Ike (the name he used as a popular novelty-tune singer in the 1920s and ...

Sze-wan: It sounds like a real-life take on “Pinocchio” – a US lobster diver says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale early this month and lived to tell the story. Today we ...

Adrián began to think about how he might survive inside the humpback whale, ‘like Pinocchio’, when the whale spat him out, he told BBC. According to whalescientists.com, baleen whales ...

Adrián had started to think how he might survive inside the humpback whale "like Pinocchio" - then the creature spat him back out. The Venezuelan kayaker had been paddling through the Strait of ...