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

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

A recent photo of an orca swimming with a salmon on its head has fueled speculation that the fad, first observed in the 1980s ...

In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads for weeks. Recently, a male orca known as J27 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads for weeks. Recently, a male orca known as J27 ...

Drone footage from a 2019 research survey shows a young male orca known as A99 “Alder" with a dead salmon on his head. A recent sighting of another salmon-wearing orca also sparked excitement. Fashion ...