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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Orcas have been spotted wearing dead salmon on their head like hats, a trend that hasn't been popular with the whales since ...

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

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