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Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun (phys.org)

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[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The video in that link is absolutely crazy. It doesn't even make sense that an animal body would do that.

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first thought was maybe it had been dead for awhile and was decomposing?

[–] raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

According to the article it was already dead, but I inferred that the orcas had killed it. The authors posit that perhaps this species of sunfish has a fleshy structure that makes this kind of explosive deconstruction possible.