Women competing in the Paris Olympics surfing semifinals in Tahiti encountered their toughest and biggest competitor yet as a humpback whale shot out of the ocean like Shamu. The whale appeared Monday ...

SAN DIEGO – SeaWorld Entertainment Inc announced plans on Monday to phase out the signature "Shamu" killer whale show at its San Diego park next year, after long-running criticism of its treatment of ...

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 lb., she ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - An employee at SeaWorld Orlando has died after being attacked by a killer whale. Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall says paramedics were called Wednesday afternoon ...

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 ...

Shamu is big business at SeaWorld, which owns more killer whales than anyone else in the world and builds the orca image into its multimillion-dollar brand, and the killing of a trainer this week ...

When SeaWorld San Diego marked its half-century anniversary 10 years ago, it was enmeshed in a public relations quagmire following the release just a year earlier of “Blackfish,” the searing ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Shamu is big business at SeaWorld, which owns more killer whales than anyone else in the world and builds the orca image into its multimillion-dollar brand. The killing of a trainer ...

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 for a ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The SeaWorld in San Antonio will reopen Saturday, but no decision has been made yet on whether the killer whale shows will go on as scheduled after a trainer's death at the SeaWorld in ...

The orcas of Puget Sound are the victims of a painful irony: The more popular they become, the more miserable their lives are. What torments these 90 or so creatures are whale-watching boats -- a ...

San Diego (tca/dpa) — When SeaWorld San Diego marked its half-century anniversary 10 years ago, it was enmeshed in a public relations quagmire following the release just a year earlier of “Blackfish,” ...