Red Sea Creatures Podcast

Egypt to Host UNCCD COP18 in 2028: What a Desertification Summit Means for the Red Sea

Parties to the UN desertification convention chose Egypt unanimously to host COP18 in 2028. The convention deals with soil, not water, but dust from degraded land falls o

Marine Symbiosis in the Red Sea: Five Partnerships and How They Work

Discover the ocean's most surprising partnerships, where species like a burrow-digging shrimp and its fish lookout depend on each other without trust. From a nearly blind

Why “Blue” Doesn't Actually Exist in the Deep Blue Sea

Discover the "Great Cerulean Deception": the vibrant blue of our oceans and many animals isn't due to paint or pigment, but a fascinating trick of physics. Water absorbs

Boxing Gloves and a Night Demon: How Sea Creatures Get Their Latin Names

A crab named after a Roman boxing glove, an anemone named after a night demon, an urchin whose name simply says "of the red sea". Scientific names look arbitrary until yo

Historic Footage: Drone Captures First-Ever Humpback Whale Birth

High above the New South Wales coast, drone pilot Alexander Forrest witnessed a truly extraordinary event: the birth of a humpback whale. This marks only the fourth time

The Octopus Countdown: One Brilliant Life, One Ultimate Chance

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:

Forget Jaws: Shark Awareness Day Reveals the Ocean's Essential Architects

Decades of sensationalism have misrepresented sharks as mindless killers, overshadowing their critical role in ocean health. These ancient apex predators are vital archit

The Language of the Deep

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 pac

Meet Red Sea Creatures - The Reef, in Your Pocket

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.

Meet the Shark That Prefers Walking to Swimming: The Discovery of Hemiscyllium dugeonae

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 fin

World Sea Turtle Day - 150 Million Years of Survival, and Why Every Year Still Counts

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

Turning Your Next Dive Into Data: How Recreational Divers Are Saving the Oceans

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 observa

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: The Explorer Who Gave the Ocean Its Voice

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 acciden

Dolphins' Deeply Human Social Memory: How Females Protect Themselves

Imagine a world where your safety depends on remembering every past interaction with others. Female bottlenose dolphins navigate just such a complex social landscape, usi

Sea Turtle Week: Why Earth's Ancient Mariners Need Our Help Now

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, al

World Oceans Day 2026: Reimagining Our Life-Support Ocean for a Thriving Future

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 Ocea

The Biological Chimera: Decoding the Evolutionary Plagiarism of the Seahorse

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

Red Sea Diving Rules 2026: New Egypt Regulations, Fees & Entry Changes

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 oper

The Silent Tide: Why Hundreds of Sharks are Washing Up on Welsh Shores

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 an

The "Ghost Shark" Returns: Why a Rare Discovery in Borneo is Shaking Up Marine Science

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 specime