In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead ...

Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still ...

A recent photo of an orca swimming with a salmon on its head has fueled speculation that the fad, first observed in the 1980s ...

Orca whales have been spotted wearing dead salmon as hats, simultaneously charming and confounding scientists around the ...

An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.

A resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently spotted sporting a dead salmon on its head. The phenomenon was ...

A group of orcas off the west coast of North America has brought back a bizarre fashion trend not seen since the late 1980s: ...

The fashionistas of the ocean have spoken, and it’s official -- salmon hats are making a comeback among orcas.

In the cold waters of Puget Sound, Washington, a peculiar fashion statement has resurfaced after nearly four decades. Orcas, ...

It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.

Washington orcas have reportedly revived a macabre fashion trend: dead-salmon hats.