Could a whale really swallow a human? We asked a biologist.

Imagine this: A giant sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has just swallowed you whole.
It might seem like a bizarre scenario to envision, but you’d hardly be the first. In the Bible’s Book of Jonah, the belly of a whale is the setting for the prophet Jonah’s  three days of repentance and prayer. In the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio, Geppetto manages to rig up a cozy living space inside the stomach of Monstro the sperm whale, complete with amenities including  a small f