apex predators
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Two Orcas Near South Africa Are at War With Great White Sharks
Two orcas named Port and Starboard seem to have developed a taste for great white sharks. Since 2017, eight great white sharks have washed ashore in South Africa, with signs of having been attacked by orcas. Seven of the sharks — typically apex predators — were missing their livers, and some didn’t have their hearts…
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Whale Sharks Keep Crashing Into Ships
The oceans’ gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.
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Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North America, where a bombardment of blue dots made it look like the coastline was being assaulted by white sharks.
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Badass Mountain Goat Kills Grizzly Bear in Canadian National Park
Bears are true apex predators, preying upon basically anything they want. If you mess with the mountain goats, however, sometimes you get the horns, as an unfortunate grizzly bear learned earlier this month.