The captive male orca who appeared in hit film Free Willy is getting its own documentary. HBO has greenlit a docuseries about ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A new podcast series is set on one of the most famous orcas in history. Keiko, the killer whale, spent time at the Oregon Coast Aquarium after living in a small tank in Mexico.

The lives of 30 beluga whales — the last captive cetaceans in Canada — are in jeopardy this week. Housed at Marineland, a ...

A whale known to many in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest will get the star treatment in a new podcast this month. Serial Productions and the New York Times will release “The Good Whale,” a six-part ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Keiko, who gained fame starring in the Free Willy movies, has died in a Norwegian bay that he made his home after a 10-year campaign failed to coax him back to the open seas. The ...

OSLO, Dec. 13 -- Keiko, the whale that gained fame starring in the "Free Willy" movies, has died in the Norwegian fjord where he made his home after a 10-year campaign failed to coax him back to the ...

Animal rights activists rejoiced last week when the Miami Seaquarium, a marine park, announced it would release its orca to a sea pen off the coast of Washington state. But unlike Free Willy, this ...

The House of Commons in Canada passed a bill that would make it illegal to hold whales, dolphins and porpoises captive. The "Free Willy" bill passed on Monday. Currently, there are only two aquariums ...

Folks at Sea World call their aquatic playgrounds amusement parks. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) calls them abusement parks. The environmental question of whether sea creatures ...

Some movies are undeniably critic-proof. No matter what holes there may be in dramatic narrative, continuity or technical skills, family-film audiences can be misled into believing that any clean ...