An orca holds with its mouth the corpse of a large moonfish. Another accelerates, the first releases it in the last instant and the blow disperses its tissues in a cloud of fragments. The scene seems chaotic, but behind it there is such precise coordination that it has surprised even those who study these great marine predators. The behavior was recorded twice in the Gulf of California, in July 2024 and September 2025. The authors have called it…
An orca holds with its mouth the corpse of a large moonfish. Another accelerates, the first releases it in the last instant and the blow disperses its tissues in a cloud of fragments. The scene seems chaotic, but behind it there is such precise coordination that it has surprised even those who study these great marine predators. The behavior was recorded twice in the Gulf of California, in July 2024 and September 2025. The authors have called it…