Topic: SeaWorld

Las Vegas will be the home to the newest theme park: RetroEscapes. It will feature lands and attractions from the 1950s through 1990s, bringing in nostalgic fans worldwide. (Sean Pavone / Getty Images)

RetroEscapes: Time travel to hit Vegas

CK Smith
Orca whale Tilikum watches as SeaWorld Orlando trainers take a break during a training session in Orlando, Fla. Tilikum died January 6, 2017. (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

"Blackfish" fallout

Kate Erbland - Indiewire
(Getty/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)

Are zoo animals happy?

Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce
Tilikum, photographed during a training session at the theme park's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla., March 7, 2011. (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

The life and death of Tilikum

John Hargrove
SeaWorld in San Diego, Calif. (AP/Seaworld San Diego)

Asha Parker
(AP//SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.)

The SeaWorld paradigm shift

Andrew O'Hehir
(Irena Silvestrova/Shutterstock)

SeaWorld's latest deception

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Elaine Thompson)

Are killer whales persons?

David Neiwert
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-242458p1.html'>Gunnar Pippel</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner

SeaWorld trainer speaks out

Lindsay Abrams
SeaWorld in San Diego, Calif. (AP/Seaworld San Diego)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Irina Silvestrova/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
A killer whale show at SeaWorld San Diego (Cary Kalscheuer/Seaworld)

Lindsay Abrams
SeaWorld San Diego (Irina Silvestrova/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Penguins at SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas (Steven Ringler/Shutterstock)

SeaWorld's penguin debacle

Lindsay Abrams

Dustin Rowles
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Lindsay Abrams

Lindsay Abrams

Free Willy -- for real

Andrew O'Hehir