Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s. Scientists aren’t sure what it means.

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

Stockton residents want solution to salmon rotting in "dead-end" slough 02:37. STOCKTON — The sight and smell of dozens, if not hundreds, of dead salmon rotting in the Pixley Slough behind John ...

Northwest Pacific orcas have started wearing salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, researchers say. This is the first time they've donned the bizarre headgear ...

First observed in the 1980s, the fad of orcas swimming around with dead salmon on their foreheads off Washington State seemed to have faded—until now.

Fishery agencies say 250,000 to 400,000 Columbia River Basin salmon are dead or will die. Sockeye salmon are the worst hit, but chinooks are dying, too, and sturgeon.

On a typically gray, gloomy day last November in Oregon, the skies opened over the Mount Hood National Forest and it began to rain fish. Over two days, about 70,000 pounds of coho salmon fell ...

Hilarity notwithstanding, the dead salmon debacle is an important episode in the development of the field, even bagging the team an Ig Nobel Prize in 2012. As Bennett himself summarized, ...

Neuroscientist Craig Bennett purchased a whole Atlantic salmon, took it to a lab at Dartmouth, and put it into an fMRI machine used to study the brain. The beautiful fish was to be the lab’s ...

Reuters. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young holds a dead salmon in a plastic bag, to protest the government's proposed laws that would safeguard controversial salmon farms in a heritage-listed ...

Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it. When you purchase through links on our site ...