In a rather shocking display of raw power, scientists off the coast of Cabo San Lucas have filmed an orca ramming a massive sunfish at high speed, causing the strange ocean creature to instantly explode into thousands of pieces like a confetti cannon. The remarkable underwater video was captured by Dr. Kathryn Ayres, a research scientist with the ocean-health nonprofit Beneath the Waves, and detailed in a groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Ethology . Check it out: The footage shows a female killer whale holding a dead, sharp-tailed sunfish by its tail fin to stabilize it, before a second orca charges forward and head-butts the fish with immense, high-speed kinetic force. “We document how one orca holds the sunfish and lets go just before another orca hits it at high speed, causing the tissue to break apart into thousands of pieces,” Dr. Ayres explained. “We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.…