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Great white sharks are so afraid of killer whales that they will leave a feeding area to them for over a year. The killer whales often kill a shark to only eat
by trengrj 5y ago
Great white sharks are so afraid of killer whales that they will leave a feeding area to them for over a year. The killer whales often kill a shark to only eat their liver.
Evolution of cetaceans started around 50 million years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans. You could probably make a solid argument that sharks being displaced as apex predators in the sea would have caused the die out of many species. Perhaps a crossover occurred around 19 million years ago.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoThis was my first thought as well, but oceanic dolphins (the group from which orcas evolved) first appeared just 11M years ago.
- hungryforcodes 5y agoDivergent evolution. Could have been another species / apex predator.