Off Australia, they've been seen using coordinated attacks to hunt the largest animal on the planet, a blue whale. Off California's coast, even great white sharks avoid orcas. One study found that ...

Kelsey Williamson The study's scientists observed four separate hunting encounters in which the orca pod encountered and attacked a whale shark. Kelsey Williamson provided photos from the ...

In 2022, three instances were recorded of orcas hunting and killing blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. Researchers have also observed over the past several decades baffling instances ...

killer whales have also been documented as having killed full-grown blue whales. Orcas hunt in groups, and are capable of launching coordinated attacks on blue whales where they will bite their ...

South Georgia was the epicentre for hunting in the early 20th Century ... I only had records for two sightings of blue whales around South Georgia. Since 2007, there have been maybe a couple ...

The licence for the 2024 hunting season allows the Hvalur company ... fin whales - the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale - to be vulnerable to extinction. In a recent survey ...

A few months earlier, researchers reported the first instance of a lone killer whale hunting and eating a great white shark off the coast of South Africa. In 2022, three instances were recorded of ...