Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why Orcas Are Punching Giant Sunfish So Hard They Explode

Orcas have been terrorizing great white sharks, capsizing boats off the Iberian Peninsula, and generally establishing themselves as the ocean’s most charismatic chaos agents. Now, in the Gulf of California, they’ve added something new to the repertoire: punching giant sunfish so hard they explode. A new paper published in Frontiers in Ethology documents three separate…