Dramatic aerial footage shows a pod of killer whales hunting great white sharks in South Africa.

A team of researchers used a helicopter and a drone to capture the moment on film, with the clip believed to be the first ever aerial footage of orcas hunting and killing great white sharks. Overwhelmed by the Sea?

The footage was submitted alongside a paper published in The Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecology in October, and gave marine biologists a brand new insight into the clashes between the two major marine predators.

Lead author and senior shark scientist at Marine Dynamics Academy in Gansbaai, South Africa.

Alison Towner said: “This behaviour has never been witnessed in detail before, and certainly never from the air.”