By Stephen Beech

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting down and eating great white sharks alive.

A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them - before feasting on their energy-rich livers.

Marine scientists - who named the specialist hunters "Moctezuma’s Pod" - say they could be taking advantage of warming waters in the Gulf of California, altering traditional shark nursery areas to hunt juveniles.

The research team says their observations, published by the journal Frontiers in Marine Science , suggest that orcas may hunt white sharks more often than previously realised.

Marine biologist Erick Higuera Rivas, lead author of the study, said: “I believe that orcas that eat elasmobranchs - sharks and rays - could eat

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