Researchers have observed orcas in the Gulf of California using collaborative techniques to hunt whale sharks by targeting ...
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 it, a male killer whale is swimming around the body of a bleeding whale shark. Later, three more videos showed similar ...
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.
Home to over 500 different species of fish, the elusive (and rather massive) whale shark is arguably the face of the whole region as they annually aggregate here between April to August each year.
A robotic whale shark swims in a tank at Xiaomeisha Sea World in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 22, ...
Jenna Chan, 15, is said to have died on November 8 while assisting the British charity Maldives Whale Shark Research ...
ERICK HIGUERA: They were very smart. And when we saw the video, we got excited. SOMMER: It showed them hunting a whale shark. (SOUNDBITE OF WHALE SHARK BREATHING) SOMMER: Whale sharks are the largest ...