For the first time ever, scientists witnessed a lone orca killing a great white shark off the coast of South Africa, further solidifying the mammal's reputation as the ocean's top predator and ...

This marked the first documented instance of a lone orca targeting and killing a great white. The behaviour has challenged conventional notions that killer whales always hunt in pairs or groups.

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 ...

In addition, since 2017, at least nine great white sharks have washed ashore at Gansbaai, several of them missing livers (and some without their hearts) – the hallmark of an orca attack.

There’s no orca equivalent of Moby Dick, the great white whale. Many of us, though, do have an image of orcas, one informed by films of them performing in aquarium shows, such as those at ...