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 ...
He said: 'We were so happy and the tourists were taking pictures and videos of it.' The whale shark is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.
And some of the attacks have been caught on video and in photos by witnesses ... all pod members work together, hitting the whale shark to turn it upside down. ‘In that position, the sharks ...
Not even a whale shark, the biggest fish species on Earth. In a new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science on November 28, scientists shared videos and photos showcasing the animals ...
In the village of Tan-awan, on the southern Philippines island of Cebu, whale shark sightings along the shore have become a prime tourist attraction. It was not always this way. Giant whale sharks ...
A solitary killer whale, or orca, has been filmed hunting and killing a great white shark in an "astonishing" attack. Scientists said it was "unprecedented" and showed the exceptional predatory ...
Large numbers of endangered whale sharks have been sighted in waters off Madagascar. The first major scientific survey in the area shows there are far more of the huge fish than previously thought.
However, the behavior wasn’t well understood or scientifically recorded until recently, when between 2018 and 2024, a team of researchers recorded videos and photos of the same pod of orcas ...