REDMOND, Wash. - The kokanee salmon have returned to some of the rivers and streams in Redmond in the largest resurgence seen in over a decade. Environmentalists say the salmon rely on Lake Sammamish ...

I’ve heard of a coonskin cap, but this is ridiculous: A whale-watcher recently spotted an orca donning a dead salmon as a hat. What’s even more remarkable? The fashion statement appears to be ...

In what may seem like a call-back to 1980s whale culture, a resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently spotted sporting a dead salmon on its head. The phenomenon was first ...

The pink salmon harvest wound up being only 58% of what had been expected at the start of the season, according to the department. While harvests of sockeye and chinook salmon turned out to be a ...

Orcas, the ocean’s charismatic black-and-white predators, are donning “salmon hats” again—balancing dead fish on their heads as they swim. The behavior, first seen in 1987, has mystified ...

Always head of the curve, blackfish off the West Coast are bringing back a fad that hasn’t been seen in the last four decades: salmon hats. The ocean’s biggest bullies have been spotted ...

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 ...

Kokanee salmon are freshwater sockeye salmon that don't migrate to the ocean. The county said that over the past eight years, an average of less than 400 kokanee have returned to their spawning ...

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 ...

Orcas, it seems, are not immune. After a 37-year break, killer whales have once again been spotted wearing dead salmon on their head. Orcas are intelligent and social animals, known for playful ...