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 ...

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

A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...

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

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

Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...

The J-, K- and L-pods are down to just 73 orcas, according to the latest census completed in July by the Center for Whale ...

New observations from photographers and researchers confirm that orcas are once again sporting fish as headgear ...

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