We're very lucky that orcas don't see us as a meal, given that they can hit a 4,000 pound sunfish hard enough to make it literally explode.

Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say ...

Sydney—A group of killer whales have been documented blowing a sunfish to bits in an unusual underwater escapade offering ...

Scientists have now documented two instances of killer whales ramming into prey so hard that it explodes into little fishy ...

A new study into the behavior of orcas ramming mola mola (sunfish) causing them to exploded has attempted to shed light on the behavior. Scientists are ...

When an eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast, officials believed dynamite was the fastest way to remove ...

Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.

The antics were documented on two occasions in 2024 and 2025 off the Gulf of California, according to the research published ...

Scientists captured video of orcas ramming into sunfish with such force that the fish exploded. The behavior may be for fun ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California have been spotted ramming into one of the world’s heaviest fish and watching them explode, seemingly just for their entertainment. Researchers captured footage of ...

An adult orca cruises near the surface of the clear, blue water, holding a large sunfish carcass in its mouth. Seconds later, ...

Orcas have long been the ocean’s most inventive predators. Some populations flip sharks upside down to induce paralysis.