The woman who acted as a stunt double in Free Willy is sharing what it was like working with a killer whale Debi Derryberry recounts in a podcast how she was cast as the stunt double for the the ...

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 ...

"Free Willy" star Jason James Richter is imploring French authorities to urgently relocate two captive orcas from a closed marine park. The whales remain in tanks at Marineland Antibes near Cannes, in ...

"Whale expert" isn't a career path you hear about very often, but one man online, The Orca Man, has turned himself into just that. He credits his success to one very simple thing: his parents turning ...

It has been more than 28 years since Keiko landed with a splash in Oregon. Keiko who, you may ask? Keiko was a male orca captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland in 1979 as a 2-year-old. He was ...

OSLO, Norway -- For kids, Keiko the killer whale was the charming hero of "Free Willy." For biologists, he was the focus of fierce debate on whether captive animals can be returned to the wild. Keiko, ...

Free Willy actor Jason James Richter urges France to relocate captive killer whales Wikie and Keijo from Marineland Antibes before it’s too late. Please join me in speaking up for killer whales Wikie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. @petite_photographe_animaliere/Instagram, inherentlywild.co.uk The orca Keiko was taken from the ...