Keiko was the 15-year-old orca that played Willy in the movie. He became the first captive orca ever to return to the wild.

However, despite their enormous contribution to cinema, animals wild or tame are not eligible for Oscars. Keiko, the orca, ...

What can we learn from the real-life story of Keiko, the orca who starred in the hit children’s movie “Free Willy”? By The Learning Network Is becoming an influencer the new American dream?

But it seems that Keiko, the most famous whale in the world, cannot live without human contact, as the main picture shows. The 33ft-long star of the film Free Willy is frolicking in a Norwegian ...

A peachy-colored baby killer whale was seen bonding and socializing with her family off Washington, drone footage shows. The endangered calf, J-62, was filmed during a Feb. 17 encounter off San ...

A peachy orange baby killer whale was spotted bouncing and rolling in waters off Washington, a nonprofit said. A pod of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales were photographed Feb. 8 off ...

Miller was a natural resource specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the science-heavy federal agency that forecasts weather, tsunamis and hurricanes, regulates ...

A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. And the unusual spectacle was all caught ...