This includes premature death, reduced resistance to disease ... dolphins and porpoises exist in confinement. Last year, ...

One of these videos showed a heartbreaking timelapse of the isolated killer whale lying motionless for ... his sperm has been sold several times to SeaWorld to impregnate other orcas.

SeaWorld announced it will build new, larger habitats for its Orca whales. The announcement comes after the company on Wednesday saw its shares fall more than 30 percent as it faces ...

The two orcas -- also known as killer whales -- themselves face an uncertain future. Animal activists had been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move ...

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In 2023 the marine biologist published The Killer Whale Journals ... called Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau after a show at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010. He grabbed her and dragged her into ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...

And one of the scientists is looking for one killer whale in particular. But their mission is not just to deepen our understanding of this extraordinary hunting behaviour. The team are also intent ...

According to the center, the death of any Southern Resident killer whale calf is a "tremendous loss," but the death of Tahlequah's calf is "particularly devastating, not just because she was a ...

Chris, for his part, has previously opened up on the trauma caused by his late wife’s death. “It was the hardest thing up until that point that I had ever had to go through," Chris ...

Whale oil was a major commodity in the mid-nineteenth century, with demand inspiring sailors to risk life and limb on whaling ships. One particular real-life whaling-ship disaster inspired Herman ...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (WRBL) – A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara Tidwell on April 17, 2020. This sentence marks the ...