For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...

The orca attacks appear to be led by a large adult male, suggesting that he may be leading the charge on this predatory ...

When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large ...

Scientists have for the first time seen orcas hunting whale sharks, the biggest fish on the planet, new research has revealed. The question of how orcas are able to kill the enormous fish is ...

Younger orcas learn these techniques from older ones. Orcas haven’t been documented, however, cooperatively hunting with whales. Indeed orcas prey on sperm, gray, fin, humpback, and many other ...

Between 2018 and recent years, researchers have recorded four separate incidents where orcas have demonstrated collaborative hunting techniques to target whale sharks. Marine biologists have ...

Interestingly, while the lipid-rich livers are thought to be the primary target of these attacks, there was no photographic ...

Researchers have now gathered direct evidence of orcas hunting and killing whale sharks. They have captured images and videos of orcas preying on whale sharks and used these to assess their ...

The research helped study the new hunting techniques and raised awareness of the pod in the Gulf of California.

Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...

Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.