Moctezuma's pod continues their dominance in the Gulf of California. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Orca whales are skilled pack hunters with an ever-growing list of prey . Recently, ocean researchers discovered that the apex predators aren't afraid of taking on equally formidable foes-- great white sharks . Now, a study published on November 3 in the journal documented even more remarkable hunting behavior.

Environment Animals Wildlife'Attack squirrel' sends two people to the ER A friendly reminder to not feed wildlife. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The residents of San Rafael, California, have been traumatized by some vicious wildlife . While cougars, coyotes, or great white sharks would be viable guesses for the culprit, this time it was a less formidable predator. The aggressor is a squirrel .

A great white shark was spotted this week swimming in the area of Scarborough, Maine. A drone video captured a great white shark lurking in the waters of a vacation spot in the Northeast. Police in Scarborough, Maine, which is located just south of Portland, confirmed this week that the shark was spotted off the state's coastline. "On Monday, August 11, 2025, Scarborough's Marine Resource Officer received a report of what appeared to be a large shark near Richmond Island and Scarborough Beach," the town wrote on its Facebook page. "Follow-up observations were conducted, and on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, the Marine Resource Officer obtained drone video footage showing a possible great white shark, estimated to be 10–12 feet in length, off the southern end of Richmond Island in the vicinity of Higgins Beach and Scarborough Beach," it added.

Whether a large and fuzzy social media sensation or deep-sea slug slunking around the ocean's Midnight Zone, there are still so many exciting animals on Earth just waiting for their close-up. In that spirit, here are the 11 of the most exciting animal stories that Popular Science covered this year. A wildlife filmmaker and biology doctoral student took what could be the first picture of a newborn great white shark. Filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes were looking for sharks near Santa Barbara on California's central coast. Most great whites are gray on top with white bellies, but Gauana's drone camera showed a roughly 5-foot-long shark pup that had more white on its body than normal.

Recent studies demonstrate that query expansions generated by large language models (LLMs) can considerably enhance information retrieval systems by generating hypothetical documents that answer the queries as expansions. However, challenges arise from misalignments between the expansions and the retrieval corpus, resulting in issues like hallucinations and outdated information due to the limited intrinsic knowledge of LLMs. Inspired by Pseudo Relevance Feedback (PRF), we introduce Corpus-Steered Query Expansion (CSQE) to promote the incorporation of knowledge embedded within the corpus. CSQE utilizes the relevance assessing capability of LLMs to systematically identify pivotal sentences in the initially-retrieved documents. These corpus-originated texts are subsequently used to expand the query together with LLM-knowledge empowered expansions, improving the relevance prediction between the query and the target documents. Extensive experiments reveal that CSQE exhibits strong performance without necessitating any training, especially with queries for which LLMs lack knowledge.

But have you ever wondered what a fight between a hippopotamus and a great white shark might look like? Now, scientists have set the record straight, after using artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate battles between the most terrifying animals on Earth. Somewhat surprisingly, the simulations suggest that a hippo would beat a great white shark - and could even take down a polar bear. However, the ultimate champion of the animal kingdom is the African Elephant, according to researchers from Animal Matchup. In honour of World Animal Day, experts from Animal Match set out to settle the debate - which animal is the strongest?

Surfers at California's San Onofre Beach were seen surrounded by great white sharks while out enjoying the surf. Recently published footage from one of California's most popular surf beaches shows at least four sharks swimming beneath the waters as surfers nonchalantly chase waves. Photographer Kevin Christopherson captured the group of aquatic predators via drone camera over San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County, California. Surfers in the drone camera footage seem unaware of, or unconcerned about, the group of sharks just beneath their boards. "I counted 4 maybe 5 total great white sharks, and it didn't stop anyone from catching some waves!"

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting and eating Great White Sharks for the first time, in an hour-long feeding frenzy. The extraordinary scenes were shot by both helicopter and drone pilots off the coast of South Africa, providing the first direct evidence of orcas preying on sharks. They reveal that the killer whales were attacking at least four sharks for about an hour, and that this unusual predatory behaviour might be spreading in the species. While a short drone video of the attack was released in June, a paper has been released this month analysing the clip plus all the footage taken from the helicopter. Scientists from the Marine Dynamics Academy studied the videos, and analysed drone and cage dive boat survey data before and after these predation events.

While sharks are deadly marine predators, they also seem to attract fish looking for a'spa day' by rubbing against their rough skin. Drone footage recorded by marine biologists at the University of Miami captured frequent incidents of the surprising ritual. Researchers pored over underwater video, photos, drone footage, and even witness reports to find 47 different instances of fish rubbing up against a shark's body at more than a dozen locations around the world. The length of these regimens varied from eight seconds to more than five minutes, and included dozens of incidents of leerfish, also known as garrick, rubbing up against a great white shark, the ultimate oceanic apex predator, in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. The number of fish chafing against a particular shark varied, too, from one lone swimmer to over 100 at once.

Scientists have recorded the first documented evidence of a great white shark attacking and killing an enormous humpback whale. Video taken from a drone off the coast of South Africa shows the 13-foot long shark hunting the whale which was around 33ft long and in ill health. Ryan Johnson, a marine biologist who observed the massacre, says the ordeal lasted about 50 minutes before the whale eventually died. Mr Johnson says the great white was very strategic in taking down the behemoth, and targeted its most vulnerable area, on the tail, before drowning the ailing whale. The great white is believed to be a shark called Helen which was named and tagged as part of a 2013 study by Mr Johnson.