One fashion trend from the '80s may be making a comeback – at least with killer whales. An orca has been spotted wearing a ...

Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.

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

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

On October 25, a viral photo of a Southern Resident orca at Point No Point, Washington, was spotted with a salmon on its head ...

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 ...

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

A ceasefire is now in place between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. It is a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of war in the Middle East, but there is no such ...

Northwest Pacific orcas have started wearing salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, researchers say. Last month, scientists and whale watchers spotted orcas ...

Back in the 1980s, the trend only lasted a year; by the summer of 1988, dead fish were totally passé and salmon hats disappeared from the West Coast orca population. Orca researchers' best guess ...

In the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific, one female orca from k-pod began carrying ... orcas from her own and two other pods were wearing dead salmon hats. Then all of a sudden, the ...