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 ...

This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” ...

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

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

A new documentary film tells the story of a captured orca named Tokitae that died in 2023 amid efforts to free her from more ...

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

Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...

Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...

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