When great white sharks have been held in captivity in the past, they’ve almost always succumbed to a swift end.

-- The beluga whale is found in arctic and subarctic waters. The body of a beluga whale is stocky and has separate layers of blubber to help keep warm. -- The whale shark is the largest of all ...

In 1995, Robert Small and Douglas DeMaster calculated annual survivorship rates (ASRs) in captive orcas and compared these results to the ASRs of wild orcas living in the Pacific Northwest of North ...

In 2010, Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in front of park guests by dragging her to the bottom of his pool Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

In 1969, a four-year-old baby orca was separated from her family off the coast of British Columbia and sold into captivity. For the past 50 years, she’s lived in an “oceanarium” and ...

The Miami Seaquarium announced plans to relocate Lolita the orca in the next 18 to 24 months to an ocean sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest, near the waters where she was captured over 50 years ...