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Orcas Observed Exploding Sunfish
Researchers have captured footage of orcas using high-speed ramming to burst sunfish, likely for both play and food processing. This behavior was observed in the wild.
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New Scientist
Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a form of play as well as food processing
2026-07-23 04:00 UTC