The killer whale pod in Mexico hunts and attacks much larger whale sharks by targeting them from below, a study finds ...

Did you know orcas once turned salmon into quirky headwear in the 1980s? This "fad" disappeared by the turn of the decade, ...

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

These predation events, documented between 2018 and 2024, reveal a coordinated and strategic approach by a pod of killer whales ... While similar attacks on whale sharks may occur elsewhere ...

There have been isolated reports in the past of killer whales (also known as orcas) attacking a whale shark. But a study, published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science is the first ...

The adult male killer whale Moctezuma and five other killer whales (two adult females, two juveniles, one calf), in the vicinity of the juvenile whale shark, measuring around 6 meters. The whale shark ...

Scientists say that, at that stage of life, they are more vulnerable to attack from predators. Now, researchers in Mexico have reported four separate incidents of killer whales - which grow up to ...

Killer whales off Mexico have developed coordinated hunting skills to take down whale sharks, adding to their reputation as ...

Researchers have observed orcas in the Gulf of California using collaborative techniques to hunt whale sharks by targeting ...

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.