On Saturday afternoon, a man in Western Australia decided to board the carcass of a dead whale that had been floating in the water for several weeks, "surfing" it for fun—until he noticed that the waters all around him were spotted with hungry sharks.

A group of marine biologists recently lucked into filming—possibly for the first time—a pod of killer whales trapping and eating a tiger shark near Costa Rica.

The best part of this clip from last night's finale of PBS' Sex in the Wild is when anatomist Dr. Joy S. Reidenberg, standing a few yards away from a dead beached sperm whale, shouts, "Can you see the penis?!" Penis ahoy!

A 15-foot Minke whale washed up in New Jersey, and it wasn't long before someone notified the authorities. And by "notified the authorities," I mean "spraypainted a fraternity logo on the dead whale."

Something like this was bound to pop up in the wake of the acclaimed documentary Blackfish: a California state assemblyman named Richard Bloom has proposed a bill that would ban orcas from being used for performative reasons.

This student group's trip to the Baja Peninsula took a turn for the getting-slapped-in-the-face-by-one-of-Earth's-largest-mammals when, "[U]nfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale's tail."

Earlier this month, a man named Carlo De Leonibus visited SeaWorld Orlando and caught sight of a beached pilot whale stuck on a ledge during a dolphin show. His account of the length of time this went on varies — he says 10 minutes, "though my wife and daughter think it was more like 20 minutes.” His description of 38…

Kelly Rowland is so jealous right now.

Beyoncé's former intern Kelly Rowland had to be rescued off the coast of Massachusetts over the weekend, after a private boat she was on became lost at sea, adrift in a salty ocean of self criticism, surrounded on all sides by black churning waters of regret. Actually, it was just in the regular sea. But it was…

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite recently told the New York Times that she approached her documentary Blackfish as a journalist with an open mind. The resulting film, which is about killer whales in captivity (specifically at SeaWorld and focusing on the 32-year-old orca Tilikum, who's killed three people), is…

In August, a finback whale that curled up to die on a shore in the Hamptons was buried in the sand; in 1964, a whale found in the Hudson, off of 79th street, was towed out to sea and detonated with 500 pounds of explosives. For the last 24 hours, a 60-foot finback whale has lain mute and emaciated on the shore outside…

Seagulls in Argentina have changed from your standard beach pests into whale killing monsters, or so say Argentine authorities. It appears seagulls there have taken to pecking tiny bits of flesh from the backs of southern right whales as they surface for air, which naturally hurts the whales but, more importanly,…

Everyone's childhood is currently going up in flames, as Raffi, the iconic Canadian ancestor of the modern-day Wiggle, is sort of losing it on Twitter.

Watch this video, via Good Morning America, and see the desperate measures killer whales will resort to when they're forced into a tank that's a fraction of a percentage of their normal environment and made to do tricks appealing to stupid humans instead of composing their pop songs and devising plans for a panglobal…