Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for ...

A killer whale has been filmed doing something that looks almost cartoonishly violent: charging at a large ocean sunfish and ...

Killer whales might pulverize sunfish to break them into smaller bites for young orcas — or they might just find it entertaining, researchers report July 23 in Frontiers in Ethology. “I was absolutely ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California were recorded using a coordinated “ram-to-fragment” technique on dead sharp-tail sunfish. One orca held the carcass steady while another struck it at high speed, ...

While one orca holds the tail of a sunfish, another orca rams into it, smashing it to bits. Researchers say the orcas might be playing a game. The heaviest bony fish on the planet, these large, ...

In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals ...

Underwater video captures the moment killer whales in the Gulf of California slam into a sunfish causing it to explode into smithereens. Researchers suspect the orcas are blowing up the fish to ...

Solar flares triggered magnetic storms visible as auroras as far south as the continental United States recently.

Even a funny-looking fish can become an ambassador for the natural world.

There have been more UK sightings of the fish in recent months as a result of the hot weather.

There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned behavior passed down through ...

Scientists captured video of orcas ramming into sunfish with such force that the fish exploded. The behavior may be for fun as well as for feeding, they report.