January 6, 2023 marks the six-year anniversary of the death of Tilikum—one of the most famous orcas in the world. The orca—which was in captivity for 33 years—died at SeaWorld Orlando and is infamous ...

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment plans to restart its "Dine with Shamu" killer-whale show, which was suspended after a trainer's death last year. The limited admission performance includes a buffet meal ...

Tilikum was a male orca who almost lived his whole life in captivity. He was only two years old when authorities captured him in the waters off the coast of Iceland in 1983. At first, he lived in a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- SeaWorld officials say Tilikum, the orca that killed a trainer at the company's Orlando park, died from bacterial pneumonia. SeaWorld spokeswoman Aimee Jeansonne Becka announced ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The orca whale that drowned a trainer last year at SeaWorld in Orlando resumed performing Wednesday for the first time since the woman’s death. Tilikum participated in the marine ...

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, and the killing of a ...

FILE- In this March 7, 2011 file photo orca whale Tilikum, right, watches as SeaWorld Orlando trainers take a break during a training session at the theme park's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla. Tilikum ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Tilikum the orca has died after more than two decades at SeaWorld Orlando, where he gained notoriety for killing a trainer in 2010 and was later profiled in a documentary that ...

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 captivity at SeaWorld parks, has ...

The demons that haunt the protagonist of Blackfish are the stuff of pseudo-Freudian boilerplate horror: a male separated from his mother at an early age is held captive for his entire life and ...

Reporting from Orlando, Fla. — A SeaWorld Orlando animal trainer died Wednesday from “multiple traumatic injuries and drowning” after a killer whale pulled her underwater by her long ponytail near the ...

The killer whale that drowned a trainer at SeaWorld last year performed publicly on Wednesday for the first time since the death. Tilikum participated in the park's "Believe" show Wednesday morning.