The group that rescued the “Free Willy” star from a cramped Mexico City park two years ago unveiled a scale model of the sea pen to be used to adapt the killer whale to his eventual home in ...

Many are familiar with the saga of Keiko, the orca whale who starred in the movie Free Willy. If not, you can read about his real-life story at the Keiko’s Journey Home Web site. In 1993, the… ...

He was rescued from a Mexico City amusement park in 1996 and rehabilitated at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Ore., before he was airlifted back to Iceland in 1998 and taught to catch fish.

Free Willy taught us that killer whales belong in the ocean, not in swimming pools. Keiko taught us that returning some whales to nature is possible, and ethical, in my mind.

Nearly 700 people turned out to bid farewell to Keiko, the killer whale who starred in the popular "Free Willy" movies and died of pneumonia last December in Norway.