🌋 The Ocean’s Origin Story

Far beneath the waters of Japan, a creature wider than a car walks slowly across the ocean floor. With armor-covered legs spanning more than twelve feet and a lifespan that may exceed a century, the J...

7 Sep 43min

The blobfish became famous for a face it was never meant to wear. Pulled from the crushing depths and stripped of the water pressure that supports its body, a perfectly adapted deep-sea fish was trans...

31 Aug 48min

Imagine spending your entire life at sea, thousands of miles from shore, surrounded by water in every direction, and still being able to die of thirst.The yellow-bellied sea snake is one of the ocean'...

24 Aug 1h 3min

Long before sharks became symbols of fear, a nine-year-old girl stood pressed against the glass of the New York Aquarium and saw something different. Where others saw a monster, Eugenie Clark saw beau...

17 Aug 48min

Spend a few minutes with an Atlantic puffin and it is easy to understand why people fall in love with them. The colorful beak. The awkward waddle. The unmistakable face.But that familiar puffin is onl...

10 Aug 1h 4min

What if the greatest threat to the ocean isn't something you can see?In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we follow the extraordinary life of a young loggerhead sea turtle from the moment she hatches...

3 Aug 47min

Discover the incredible true story of the giant clam, one of the ocean's most remarkable and misunderstood animals.What if one of the largest animals on a coral reef didn't hunt for its food... but li...

27 Jul 1h 3min

Beneath the coral reef, where sunlight fades into shadow, a different kind of predator begins to move.In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we journey into the hidden world of the Atlantic nurse shark...

20 Jul 52min