Lolita the orca whale is set to get her own Free Willy story. On Thursday, the Miami Seaquarium announced plans to move the whale — captured from the Pacific Ocean near Washington and placed ...

The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was first spotted in the Salish ...

More than 80 orcas were rounded up, herded into nets, and taken into captivity—including Tokitae, who spent 53 years at the Miami Seaquarium and died before she could be returned to the Pacific ...

Friends of Lolita, a not-for-profit organization, and the Miami Seaquarium announced at a news conference Thursday that they have signed an agreement to return the killer whale, also known as ...

SeaWorld Orlando is facing a fine from the federal government after one of its trainers was injured by an orca whale during a training exercise, according to the Occupational Safety & Health ...

was released for Miami Seaquarium. (See AWI Quarterly, winter 2021.) The report chronicled a number of extremely troubling incidents at this outdated marine theme park, including a performance-related ...

But their focus changed when they learned of a female member of the population that had been captured 50 years ago and was alive at the Miami Seaquarium and that members of Lummi Nation from the ...

Lolita, a southern resident orca, was captured in the Pacific Ocean 53 years ago and spent the rest of her life performing at the Miami Seaquarium, in the smallest killer whale tank in North America.

Good news for the orca population on the west coast! The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA ... sent to aqua parks like Sea World and the Miami Seaquarium. The most famous of these captures ...

Sea World of Florida, which operates as SeaWorld Orlando, has been cited by OSHA for a general violation the agency says led to a trainer being injured while working with a killer whale.

Throughout the film, viewers see the struggle to get the whale ... Orca’s world premiere at the Miami Film Festival, Miami-Dade County sent a notice of lease termination to the Miami Seaquarium ...