Music up. A symphonic score fills the former Shamu Stadium at SeaWorld, the tempo building suspense as footage of an icy landscape in Antarctica moves across a 140-foot wide screen. “Get ready ...

— -- The whale trainer behind a book critical of SeaWorld says his former employer is conducting a "smear campaign" by releasing a 5-year-old video of him using racist terms while he was ...

A killer whale attacked and killed a 40-year-old trainer in front of a horrified audience at a SeaWorld show Wednesday, with witnesses saying the animal involved in two previous deaths dragged the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – SeaWorld built its brand on a leaping and splashing killer whale named Shamu. She was part of its logo, gave her name to stadiums in the theme parks and was the inspiration ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a regulatory safety finding against SeaWorld in the drowning of a trainer who was pulled under by a killer whale at the theme park. In ...

My grandparents took me to SeaWorld Orlando when I was 9, and I’ll never forget seeing Shamu soar out of the water and drenching all of us. One of my first jobs before zoology school in Florida ...

Among the seven orcas who play Shamu in the famous killer-whale extravaganza at San Diego’s SeaWorld, Kasatka is not the one to mess with — whether you’re human or cetacean. At a mere 5,000 ...

MIAMI (AP) – SeaWorld announced Thursday it is ending its practice of killer whale breeding following years of controversy over keeping orcas in captivity. In a statement released Thursday ...

Bowing to pressure from animal rights advocates and decreasing attendance over the past few years, SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show with a final performance by the ...

SeaWorld bids farewell Sunday to Shamu show SeaWorld rebuilding reputation with new killer whale exhibit Tilikum, the orca that killed a SeaWorld trainer and featured in ‘Blackfish,’ has died ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in ...

News; Nation; SeaWorld’s 20-year-old killer whale Nakai has died following an infection Aug. 6, 2022 Updated Sat., Aug. 6, 2022 at 9:03 p.m. A Sea World senior trainer works with the killer ...