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 ...

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.

Off the coast of Washington State, orcas have started wearing salmon hats again. The trend was first described in the […] ...

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

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

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

About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and ...

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, a female orca near Puget Sound began wearing a dead salmon on her head. Other whales in her pod, along with two ...