Dave Phillips, a scientist that helped to rewild Keiko, the orca who starred in "Free Willy," is working to help two other ...

A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving ...

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to the orca ...

A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists say whales are ...

Shutterstock Image In a real life Free Willy situation, one man is working to save 2 orcas from captivity. Wikie and Keijo ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

Most experts agree that releasing the two whales, which are Icelandic orcas specifically, into the wild would not be suitable as both were born in captivity and would not have the skills to survive.

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen ...

The killer whale that can 'speak' France bans captive breeding of dolphins Managers say shows featuring killer whales and dolphins attract 90% of Marineland's visitors – and that without it the ...

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.