Saltwater Stories

There is something moving through the tangled roots of a coastal mangrove forest. It is watching, steering, hunting, and making decisions in a world of murky water and shifting light. But it has no brain. Meet the box...

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 Japanese spider crab...

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 transformed into a...

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's most...

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 beauty, intelligence...

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 only part of the...

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 lived on sunlight...

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, a slow-moving...

Most people walk past a mudflat without giving it a second thought. But beneath the surface is one of the busiest and most remarkable communities along the coast. In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we uncover the...

This week on Saltwater Stories, we meet one of the strangest and most extraordinary animals on Earth. A fish that walks across mud, breathes air beneath the tropical sun, climbs among mangrove roots, and raises its...

At first glance, a salt marsh can look like an empty field of grass and mud. But step closer and an entirely different world comes into focus. In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we journey into one of the most...

<p>As Sea Turtle Week begins, we celebrate one of the most extraordinary travelers in the ocean. The leatherback sea turtle is a living relic that has shared the seas with dinosaurs, crossed entire ocean basins, and...

<p>Imagine soaring through an endless blue universe on wings wider than a car. In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we journey into the remarkable world of the giant oceanic manta ray, one of the most intelligent and...

<p>In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we drift into the mesmerizing world of the moon jelly, a translucent creature that has survived for more than five hundred million years without bones, blood, or even a...

<p>In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we dive into the extraordinary world of spinner dolphins, the ocean’s greatest acrobats.</p><p>Across the tropical seas, these sleek marine mammals launch themselves high above...