Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new research videos show. The research, released on Sunday , suggests that this pod of orcas specializes in hunting sharks.

Great white sharks have only one known natural predator in the ocean: the orca, or killer whale. However, there has only been one known recorded instance, in South Africa in 2022, of the animals preying on juvenile great white sharks, until now.

Erick Higuera, an independent marine biologist in Mexico, captured aerial footage of a pod of five orcas in the Gulf of California hunting three great white sharks on two separate occasions.

In the first recorded hunt , which took p

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