Odyssey Earth

Choices, choices, choices…so much food to choose from!

Metamorphosis is an incredible, mysterious process, and it happens in nature everyday…even in your own back yard!

Life’s great when two different species partner up!

Commensalism: a symbiotic relationship in which only one of the organisms benefit. Sounds a lot like free-loading to us.

The world’s tropical forests are in trouble. The Maya, however, received everything they needed from the jungle’s bounty and developed a highly sustainable system of agriculture.

Ditch the machete and grab a mask and snorkel. We’re gonna explore the “tropical rainforests” of the sea!

Bonefish, AKA the “Grey Ghost,” are powerful, fast and highly prized by flats-fishermen in South Florida’s coastal waters. But they are disappearing. Fortunately, scientists and fishing guides are banding together to save these amazing predatory fish.

If you live in South Florida, lucky you! Because this chunk of subtropical paradise is home to 4, you heard it….4 incredible National Parks. Get out and explore!

Ocean currents connect the world. For the most part, that’s a very good thing. However they also transport millions of tons of man made debris around the planet. That’s a very bad thing.

Cuba, like many islands, is rich with endemic life. Twenty seven species of birds can be found nowhere else in the world!

You might say the Everglades are a vast, stagnant swamp, full of slithering reptiles and stinging insects. But did you know they are considered to be an incredibly wide, slow moving river? Crazy huh!

Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina might just be the most pristine and wild places left in the Caribbean!

Welcome to the swamp, folks!

Exciting things can happen when dedicated people work together…like bringing a rare orchid back from the brink of extinction!

It’s mangrove baby-making time!!

Take a peek inside the amazing and amazingly important world of the seagrass habitat!

Find out how biologists and sport-fishermen are joining forces to understand fish populations in the coastal Everglades!

They might seem cute and fluffy, but lets just say they’re the silent but deadly type.

With a name like “snakehead,” what’s there to like?!

What the heck is that?! About the weirdest-looking turtle you’ve ever seen!

It’s like a submarine salad…a squishy, slimy slithering salad.

A wild cat named Bob. Now that’s funny.

The yellow-head jawfish is a terrifying monster of the sea. I’m totally kidding.

On just a few beaches in the world, thousands of ridley sea turtles come ashore to nest at the same time. Check out one of nature’s great spectacles!

What makes rainforests so unique? Well, lots of rain to start with.

D. Paul Reillo and the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation are trying to save the planet, with the help of a few rock-star animals!

Science is for everybody. I mean everybody.

Picky eaters? Not these guys!

Eat your veggies!

Ancient. Powerful. Toothy. Threatened. Sharks have been the inspiration for books, movies and nightmares since humans took to the seas…but they’re way more important than we ever gave them credit. Now that we know, can we save them before it’s too late?!

This is a video all about hammocks. No, not the kind you string between two palm trees and take a nap in…. the hardwood variety.

CHEW ON THIS: The nine-banded armadillo is a land mammal. Once in a while, however, he has to cross a small body of water. He has two very unique methods of doing this. Method one is floating on the surface. The armadillo can literally inflate his intestines with air, creating the buoyancy he needs to […]

Mastadons. Giant ground sloths. Saber toothed cats. If you were a prehistoric human living in Florida around 10,000 B.C., you had bigger things to worry about than like…..what video game am I going to play next…..

Home. It’s an important concept for us….as well as countless marine organisms that live in our oceans. We’re also finding out that artificially constructed habitats might be a great thing for everyone!

3/4/12  At 6:30 on a Saturday morning most people are enjoying their weekend slumber. I’m chugging coffee, blasting NPR, and clicking my way down US1 towards Islamorada. This time, skimping on sleep is an enthusiastic compromise. Today I’m embarking on a real adventure.  7:45 am.   Mile marker 85 appears. I turn towards the bay side […]

As a wildlife filmmaker, two of my great passions are constantly colliding. Nature and art are, respectively, my subject matter and my craft. As far as I know the following statement hasn’t been scientifically proven, but my gut tells me this is true: a deep appreciation for nature requires a deep appreciation for art. I […]

A tangled mangrove forest might not be that attractive to your typical beach goer, but they’re pretty darn important. These highly specialized trees perform many functions that we take for granted….or probably don’t even realize!

When we think of South Florida, even those of us who grew up here, I bet this is what we usually picture: the postcard snap-shot of an arching coconut palm framed by a rosy sunset on a wide, sandy beach. Sorry dude, you got the wrong picture. First of all, that arching coconut palm that […]