Researchers have observed orcas in the Gulf of California using collaborative techniques to hunt whale sharks by targeting ...
Off Baja California, in Mexico, a killer whale named after an Aztec emperor is leading his pod on routine takedowns of the ...
Researchers out of Monterey, Ca., on Thursday enjoyed a rare encounter with mysterious killer whales known to travel in ...
the whale shark's size is its main advantage. But young whale sharks aren't any larger than full-grown orcas, making them prime targets for the killer whales. “It’s a big, big fish that is ...
If climate change impacts the whale shark population in the Gulf of California ... Bull sharks are large and aggressive, ...
One day, he received a tourist video documenting something he'd never seen. In it, a male killer whale is swimming around the ...
In the attacks, caught on video between 2018 and 2024, the orcas killed young whale sharks that gathered in the Gulf of California to feed.
The orcas would work together to hit the whale shark until it turned upside down. Image: A killer whale hits the ventral side of the whale shark. Pic: Kelsey Williamson Image: A killer whale hits ...
These predation events, documented between 2018 and 2024, reveal a coordinated and strategic approach by a pod of killer whales ... hitting the whale shark to turn it upside down.
The Center for Whale Research has named the newborn killer whale female J61 Dave Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 ...