A whale-watching boat captain in Monterey, Calif., captured footage of a "super pod" consisting of over 2,000 dolphins swimming in the sea Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

orcas, and super pods of dolphins thousands of individuals strong. Dolphins usually swim in much smaller pods of about 10 - 30 individuals, depending on the species and nature of the pod.

The matriarch of this orca pod was seen flinging a dusky dolphin into the air during the hunt, with the rest of the pod sharing food, according to a paper in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

A new study co-authored by García Cegarra in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science does just that, capturing drone footage of an orca pod near Chile feeding on dusky dolphins. Orcas live in ...

A whale-watching tour company in Northern California captured rare footage of a dolphin super pod — featuring about 2,000 dolphins breaching off of the coast of Monterey. According to the ...

What is causing the behavior is the same thing bringing thousands of dolphins, what he calls “super pods“: food pushed up to the surface of the sea. “There’s so many dolphins pushing the ...

A California boat captain has captured rare video of a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins breaching off the coast of Monterey Bay, including the more elusive northern right whale dolphin.

An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of ... They prey on a wide variety of creatures: fish, marine mammals like seals and dolphins, sea turtles, and cephalopods such as squid.

including Risso’s dolphins, a super pod of which Brodsky captured on drone video last month. Adults are about 10 feet long and weigh over 200 pounds, Brodsky said. People come from around the ...

A whale-watching tour company in Northern California captured rare footage of a dolphin super pod — featuring about 2,000 dolphins breaching off of the coast of Monterey. According to the Associated ...