During a free-diving contest, Yang Yun got stuck at the bottom of an arctic pool without breathing equipment when her legs cramped. Enter Mila, a Beluga Whale, who realized she was in distress before the event's organizers did and pushed her to the surface. Badass.

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1. Beluga Whale Saves Diver
2. Beluga whale saves drowning diver’s life | The Sun |News
3. Whale Saves Drowning Diver, Pulls Her to Surface (More Pics)
4. More Whale Buzz

David Sheridan, an Australian kitesurfer, gets smacked in the head by a whale tail but manages to escape unscathed. It's a cool photo, which was taken by a camera attached to the guy's kite.

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1. More Video Footage of Whale Wacking
2. Kitesurfing on Wikipedia
3. ABC News Has a Video Report
4. David Sheridan Photo Caught Right Before Whale Swats Him in the Head

SCIENCE BUZZ: Dubbed “the unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal — a type of whale with a long, spiral tusk — is kind of magical. While they’re not necessarily as cute as manatees or (duh!) dolphins , the fascinating, lesser-known creatures are, believe it or not, more at risk from global warming than polar bears.

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1. National Geographic Explain The Narwhal
2. Please Live Forever, Narwhals
3. Jacques Cousteau Would’ve Wanted You to Talk About Narwhals
4. One Angry Narwhal
5. The Narwhal Tee Shirt (Of Course)

The image you see when Twitter is down (which is often), has a fan club . The stolen piece of illustration by Yiying Lu is spawning comics, t-shirts, and throngs of followers.

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1. Succeed Whale - Featured Picture on BuzzFeed
2. The Artist Probably Recieved Less Than $10
3. Fail Whale, the Fan Club
4. Yiying Lu, the Artist Behind the Whale
5. Fail Whale, the Brand
6. Fail Whale, the Gear
7. Fail Whale on Wikipedia
8. Not the Whale’s Preferred Mode of Transportation
9. Do the Fail Whale
10. Twitter Sleeps With the Fishes
11. What Twitter Users Are Saying