Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Why it matters: The findings ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new ...

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of ...

The orca, also known as the killer whale, is the ocean predator that eats sharks' livers.

Off the coast of Mexico, a pod of killer whales has developed a specialized hunting technique. They flip juvenile great white sharks upside down in a way that likely triggers a trance-like paralysis, ...

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting down and eating great white sharks alive. A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them - ...

Esther Jacobs smelled murder on the water. As the pungent odor of shark liver filled the air and an oily sheen spread across the surface, Jacobs had come upon an aquatic crime scene - and two ...

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland ...

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