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Orcas filmed smashing giant sunfish into thousands of pieces

ScienceDailyThursday, July 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM

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Orcas filmed smashing giant sunfish into thousands of pieces
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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, blasting the carcass into thousands of pieces.

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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, blasting the carcass into thousands of pieces.

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