Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale predation on white sharks in Australia.

There are documented incidences where orcas have preyed on other shark species, including great whites. In 2022, scientists reported how a pack of killer whales ganged up to kill a blue whale.

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

We don't know how frequently these events occur in Australian waters and therefore how significant these findings are,' said ...

Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...