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

Deborah Giles, the research director for the nonprofit Wild Orca, witnessed the return of the salmon hat trend while observing orcas in the Puget Sound. "We saw one with a fish on its head. So that ...

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 ...

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

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

In what may seem like a call-back to 1980s whale culture, a resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently ...

Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...

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

It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.

Within a couple of weeks, the rest of the pod had jumped on the bandwagon and turned salmon corpses into must-have fashion accessories, according to the marine conservation charity ORCA — but it ...

A s anyone who follows fashion knows, certain trends like indie sleaze and cargo pants can come back around after a long and ...

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