Red Sea Creatures Podcast

Imagine a creature smart enough to solve puzzles and recognize faces, yet whose entire existence unfolds in less time than it takes to pick a movie. This is the octopus: an animal whose every move, from open ocean...

Decades of sensationalism have misrepresented sharks as mindless killers, overshadowing their critical role in ocean health. These ancient apex predators are vital architects of the food web, maintaining ecological...

Your first boat dive comes with an alphabet soup of NDLs, SMBs and buddy checks that sounds like a secret code. It kind of is - every acronym is a small safety ritual packed into a few letters. Here are the nine that...

A field guide, a dive planner, and a love letter to one of the richest seas on Earth - now an app. Here's everything it can do, and why I built it.

While we often picture sharks as apex predators, a newly discovered species in Papua New Guinea challenges this notion by literally "walking" across the seabed on its fins. This unique shark, Hemiscyllium dugeonae, uses...

Sea turtles have swum Earth's oceans for an incredible 150 million years, outlasting dinosaurs and every major global catastrophe. On World Sea Turtle Day, June 16th, we celebrate these ancient survivors but also face a...

Every dive you take, every photo you snap, can become a vital part of global ocean conservation. Turn your passion into purpose by contributing real-time data and observations - no PhD needed - to fill critical...

Today marks the birthday of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a visionary who revolutionized ocean exploration and changed how humanity sees the sea. Despite a career-ending accident, he gave the deep a voice, bringing its wonders...

Imagine a world where your safety depends on remembering every past interaction with others. Female bottlenose dolphins navigate just such a complex social landscape, using sophisticated long-term memory to track the...

Every year from June 8-16, Sea Turtle Week calls on us to celebrate and act on behalf of these extraordinary ancient mariners. Having outlasted dinosaurs and ice ages, all seven species now face their greatest test...

The ocean is our planet's primary life-support system, generating over 70% of the oxygen we breathe and buffering our climate from excess heat and carbon. This World Oceans Day marks a crucial transition from passive...

Beyond their whimsical charm, seahorses are nature's most audacious biological chimeras, defying traditional definitions of fish. They are living mosaics of evolutionary innovations, "plagiarizing" traits from across...

Egypt’s Red Sea diving scene is entering a new era in 2026, with stronger regulation, greater environmental focus, and a push for more transparent, professional dive operations. From Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh to...

Along the Welsh coast, a peaceful morning walk has turned into a disturbing discovery as dog walkers found hundreds of dead catsharks and fish washed ashore. The scale and concentration of the wash-up suggest something...

A rare “ghost shark” has been rediscovered thriving in a remote Indonesian river, overturning assumptions that the Ganges shark was nearly gone. The finding of 43 specimens in North Kalimantan suggests the species may...