For the next half-hour, the two adult orcas, by turns, bit the whale and dragged it underwater, attempting to prevent it from surfacing. Then the massive marine mammals disappeared beneath the ...

France has denied an application to transport two orcas from Marineland Antibes to the site being proposed by the Whale Sanctuary Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, near Sherbrooke ...

After helping Free Willy taste freedom, Dave Phillips is working to give two other orcas a life outside captivity, Phillips, a director of the International Marine Mammal Project at Earth Island ...

The last two performing orcas in ­captivity in France are facing an ­uncertain future after their marine park closed. Marineland shut at the start of the month due to a law banning shows with ...

A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in the country, hundreds ...