The orca in the photo was identified by researchers as J27 Blackberry, who isn’t the most social orca in the pod, according ...

A Watertown McDonald’s manager was recently awarded the inaugural Paul M. Ross Impact Award by Ronald McDonald House ...

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

Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.

Fashion is fickle and styles come and go — even for orcas, apparently. In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on ...

Opposing sides in British Columbia's fractious battle over coastal open net-pen salmon farming are in Ottawa casting for support to either phase out the industry or throw it a life line.

After ramming yachts off the coast of Spain, orcas are on to yet another bizarre trend: wearing dead salmon hats. Scientists and whale watchers have recently spotted killer whales off the coast of ...

An orca was spotted with a “salmon hat” in Puget Sound in Washington on Oct. 25 — the first time since 1987. Jim Pasola/Orca Newtwork Trendsetter Blackberry the orca was papped sporting the ...

Now, like fashion trends to do, the bizarre 'hat' has made a comeback after scientists and whale watchers in Washington State recently saw some orcas with dead salmon on their heads. In a Facebook ...

Are they getting smarter? The motivation for the salmon hat trend remains a mystery. "Honestly, your guess is as good as mine," Deborah Giles, an orca researcher at the University of Washington ...

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Are they getting smarter? The motivation for the salmon hat trend remains a mystery. "Honestly, your guess is as good as mine," Deborah Giles, an orca researcher at the University of Washington who ...