But off the coast of Baja California, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish: With an unusual maneuver, ...
Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.
The ramming behavior might help younger orcas more easily digest their food, while also allowing other orcas to have a little ...
The orcas were engaging in "ram-to-fragment" behavior, marine researchers said.
How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca. Barreling into large, heavy fish with enough force to ...
The behavior could be a strategy to help younger orcas feed, or it may just be for their own amusement, researchers say ...
Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...
In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after ...
A rumor that circulated online in September 2025 claimed a 29-year-old woman who identified as a "trans-dolphin" drowned in Table Rock Lake — a body of water located in southwest Missouri and ...