In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has ...

In the 1980s, an orca on the West Coast of the United States started a strange trend that was quickly adopted not just by her ...

The sight and smell of dozens, if not hundreds, of dead salmon rotting in the Pixley Slough behind John Muir Elementary ...

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

Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...

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

Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...

New observations from photographers and researchers confirm that orcas are once again sporting fish as headgear ...

The salmon hat craze was first observed in 1987 when a female orca in the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific was seen ...

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

West Coast killer whales were last spotted sporting expired salmon in the 1980s, according to Live Science. After a nearly 40 ...

The J-, K- and L-pods are down to just 73 orcas, according to the latest census completed in July by the Center for Whale ...