Dawn Brancheau was one of SeaWorld's most experienced trainers before she was mauled to death by Tilikum the killer whale in front of a packed audience. The 40-year-old trainer was set to put on a ...

Experienced trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a killer whale named Tilikum in 2010 SeaWorld Orlando in Florida in front of ...

The experienced trainer, 40, became one of SeaWorld's ... and she shared a special connection with Tilikum, the massive killer whale that would take her life in 2010. Tilikum, known to many ...

It was not the first attack on whale trainers at SeaWorld parks. In November 2006, a trainer was bitten and held underwater several times by a killer whale during a show at SeaWorld's San Diego park.

Liz became my role model, and she made me determined to become an animal trainer at SeaWorld. I dreamed of being like Liz, swimming in the water with a killer whale. I was an animal trainer from ...

An international team of marine biologists have published research in Molecular Ecology that shows the benefits of gene flow ...