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One orca held a sunfish by the tail. Another smashed it to smithereens.

She watched as an orca held a sunfish by the tail while another orca swam toward the enormous fish and pummeled into it so fast that it smashed into smithereens.

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'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded

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Orca blasts sunfish apart during hunt. See the video.

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Orcas filmed ramming sunfish so hard it explodes in cloud of scraps

Orcas in the Gulf of California have been filmed working together to blow a massive sunfish into smithereens.

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Orcas filmed pulverizing sunfish in what could be either feeding strategy or fun, scientists say

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Harrowing moment orcas ram into two-tonne fish so hard it EXPLODES into bite-sized pieces in never-before-seen behaviour

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Orcas Have Taken Playing With Their Prey to New Level: Exploding Fish

In the video, the female orca is holding a sharptail sunfish by its tail fin, and as the male picks up speed, heading directly into their prey, she releases the fish shortly before impact.

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Bam! See these killer whales explode fish into pieces.

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Killer whales caught on camera ramming huge fish until it exploded

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Killer whales filmed smashing huge fish to smithereens with torpedo headbutt before eating it

Experts think the behaviour could possibly be a form of entertainment for younger whales

Science Daily

Orcas filmed smashing giant sunfish into thousands of pieces

Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before. In two separate encounters, one orca gripped a dead sunfish by the fin while another charged into it at high speed,

Fox News

Giant 6,000-pound sunfish sets world record as largest bony fish: report

A giant, ocean sunfish weighing more than 6,000 pounds was found in Portugal and the fish has posthumously set a world record for being the largest bony fish known to man, according to a recent report. The deceased fish was discovered afloat near Faial ...

Newsweek

Giant Ocean Sunfish Filmed in Gulf of Maine in Rare and Awesome Encounter

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ocean sunfish has been caught on film off the coast of Massachusetts in a rare sighting. The video, which was shared on ...

How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It.

But off the coast of Baja California, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish: With an unusual maneuver, the orcas pulverize the giants. Erick Higuera, a marine biologist at Conexiones Terramar, a scientific organization, described the attacks as “violent” and “chaotic,” but also “highly calculated.”