A kayaker thought he was dead after being briefly swallowed by a humpback whale. His father caught the biblical moment on camera. Dramatic video shows the moment a humpback whale briefly swallowed a ...

If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese mariner who sailed on behalf of Spain in 1519. But Magellan ...

Chilean researchers have detected a naturally-occurring crude oil leak along the Strait of Magellan in far-southern South America thanks to sensors mounted on a ferry. Ricardo Giesecke, a professor at ...

You may faintly remember hearing about Ferdinand Magellan in a high school history class. You certainly won’t get much ...

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...

The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...