The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

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; a ...

A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.

In Chile’s southernmost Patagonia region, a 24-year-old Chilean kayaker has lived to tell the tale after he was swallowed by a giant Humpback whale in the waters of the Strait of Magellan, while ...

I came across a letter in the Times published 6th September 1971 from a lecturer at Newcastle University: Jonah the Giant Whale. Sir, An exhibtion billed as "Jonah the Giant Whale" is at present ...

Chilean kayaker’s dramatic Whale encounter Last Saturday, 20-year-old Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila, near the San Isidro Lighthouse in Chilean ...

But Daren Glover, general manager of environmental organization Project Jonah, told Stuff it was likely a humpback whale or a southern right whale.

We were alerted to this whale of a story recently when T&A reader Alan Whitfield got in touch with his recollection of “Jonah, a smelly fin whale which was taken around the country on a large ...

The Bible has no shortage of strange stories. From a talking donkey to a man being eaten by a giant fish, the Bible has no shortage of strange stories. In her new book "A Most Peculiar Book: The ...