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20,000 Octopuses in One Place, Two Miles Down Where Sunlight Never Reaches

A nursery of 20,000 octopuses, a shark that may be 400 years old, the deepest fish ever filmed, and the fifty-year feast when a whale dies.

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3-minute episodes

Cingino dam, Italy
Ibex Climbing a Dam Wall: Wild Goats Scale 50 Metres of Stone in Italy for Salt
Alpine ibex on the Cingino dam.
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Southern Ocean
Antarctic Icefish: The Fish With Clear Blood, and a Colony of 60 Million Nests Under the Ice
The only animals with a backbone known to live without haemoglobin: their blood is as clear as water, in a sea that sits below zero.
No design for this one yet.
Alaska to New Zealand
A Bird Flew 13,000 Kilometres Without Landing. Here's How It Survived Eleven Days in the Air
The bar-tailed godwit's non-stop flight across the Pacific.
Keep Going Godwit Tee From $36 · 4 pieces
Barreleye Fish: The Deep-Sea Fish With a See-Through Head and Eyes That Look Up Through Its Skull
Green eyes that look up through a transparent dome.
Barreleye Reversible Bucket Hat $48
Coelacanth: The Fish That Was Missing From the Fossil Record for 66 Million Years
Coelacanths were known only as fossils, the youngest 66 million years old, until a living one was caught off South Africa in 1938.
No design for this one yet.
Southern Ocean
This 500 kg Squid Has Never Been Seen Alive as an Adult. In 2025, a Robot Met a Baby
The colossal squid, filmed alive for the first time.
No design for this one yet.
Dumbo Octopus: The Deepest Octopus Ever Seen, Almost 7 km Down
The deepest octopus ever seen: a dumbo octopus filmed 6,957 metres down in the Java Trench in 2019.
No design for this one yet.
Antarctica
Emperor Penguins Survive the Antarctic Winter: 4 Months Without Food at Minus 60, Egg on Their Feet
The only bird that breeds through the Antarctic winter: the male fasts for about four months with the egg on his feet, at temperatures down to minus sixty.
Keep Shuffling Emperor Penguin Tee From $36 · 7 pieces
Glass Sponge: The 11,000-Year-Old Animal Standing on a 3-Metre Spike of Glass in the Deep Sea
Monorhaphis chuni, one of the longest-lived animals known.
No design for this one yet.
Arctic Ocean
There's a Shark in the Arctic That May Be 400 Years Old. Here's How We Know
The Greenland shark and the radiocarbon in its eye lenses.
Take Your Time Greenland Shark Tee From $36
8,336 metres down
The Deepest Fish Ever Filmed Lives 8 Kilometres Down. Here's the Glowing Descent to Reach It
The hadal snailfish at 8,336 metres, past a sea of lights.
No design for this one yet.
Alaska
Humpback Whales Build a Net Out of Bubbles: How Alaska's Whales Hunt as a Team and Teach It
Bubble-net feeding, a hunting trick that whales teach each other.
Made of Air Humpback Whale Tee From $36 · 3 pieces
This Pea-Sized Jellyfish Can Restart Its Life. Scientists Have Reset One at Least Ten Times
A jellyfish smaller than a pea that can turn back into a polyp, even after reaching adulthood, and start its life again.
Start Again Immortal Jellyfish Tee From $36 · 3 pieces
the Gulf, more than 1,200 metres down
There's a Lake at the Bottom of the Ocean, and It Has a Beach
There's a lake on the floor of the Gulf, more than twelve hundred metres under the sea, with a surface, a shoreline and a beach made of mussels. This calm documentary goes down to its shore, over its edge and into the ground beneath it to find out where its salt comes from: a sea that dried out 165 million years ago.
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Oyamel forests, Mexico
This Butterfly Has Never Been to Mexico. It Flies 4,000 km and Finds the Same Forest Anyway
Monarch migration, several generations apart.
Monarch Butterfly Reversible Bucket Hat $48
Namib Desert
Namib Desert Beetle: The Beetle That Drinks Fog by Standing on Its Head on the World's Oldest Desert
Fog-basking on the world's oldest desert.
No design for this one yet.
Davidson Seamount, California
There's a Nursery of 20,000 Octopuses Two Miles Under the Sea. Here's Why They Gather
The Octopus Garden on the Davidson Seamount, where warm springs speed up the eggs.
All Heart Octopus Tee From $36 · 4 pieces
Olm: The Blind Cave Salamander That Lives 100 Years, Fasts for Years and Barely Moves
A blind cave salamander from the karst caves of Slovenia that keeps its gills for life. One was found in the same spot 2,569 days later.
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Saharan Silver Ant: The Ant That Runs on 60 °C Sand at the Hottest Hour of the Day
The Saharan silver ant forages on sand hotter than 60 °C at the hottest hour of the day, running up to 108 body lengths a second.
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Sperm Whale: Diving Nearly 2 km to Hunt Squid in Total Darkness, and the Clicks That Name Each Clan
The biggest hunter with teeth on Earth dives to nearly two kilometres to hunt squid in total darkness, by sound.
Sleep On It Sperm Whale Bucket Hat $42
Deep sea floor
When a Whale Dies, It Feeds the Deep Sea for Fifty Years. Here's Who Arrives
Whale fall: hagfish, sleeper sharks and bone-eating worms take their turn.
Still Giving Whale Fall Heavyweight Tee · Big Print From $42
North American forests
This Frog Freezes Solid Every Winter. Its Heart Stops, and in Spring It Wakes Up
Every winter more than half the water in a wood frog’s body turns to ice. In Alaska it stays frozen up to 7 months, with no heartbeat, then thaws in spring.
Back in Spring Wood Frog Tee From $36 · 4 pieces

Collections · 10–15 min

Wild Goats Climb a 50-Metre Dam Wall, and Three Animals That Live Somewhere Worse
Wild goats on 50 metres of stone, three of every four flamingos born on a lake that turns animals to stone, a red river of crabs, and a rat that lives without air for 18 minutes.
Lake Natron Flamingo Reversible Bucket Hat $48
A Fish With a Transparent Head, and Three More Animals That Never See Light
Four animals that live in total darkness: a bone-eating worm, the deepest amphipod on Earth, a blind cave salamander and a fish that looks up through its own clear head.
Barreleye Reversible Bucket Hat $48
There's a Lake at the Bottom of the Sea, With a Shoreline and a Beach Made of Mussels
The biggest animal nobody has seen grown up, a pea-sized jellyfish that restarts its life, and a salt lake with a shore 1,000 metres down.
No design for this one yet.
Earth Has a Second Moon. Here's What Else We Got Wrong About Our Planet
Earth's inner core slowed down, a second moon that may be a chunk of the real one, the Moon drifting away, and the mountain that beats Everest from its seafloor base.
Moon Phases Reversible Bucket Hat $48
The Ocean Is 11 Kilometres Deep. Here's What Lives at Every Level
The ocean averages about 3,700 metres deep and reaches about 10,935 metres in the Challenger Deep. This film sinks through every layer on the way down.
Bathyscaphe Reversible Bucket Hat $48
The Bird That Crosses the Himalaya in One Night, and Three Animals That Do the Impossible
Five animals in impossible places: bubble-net humpbacks, geese that cross the Himalaya in a night, a seal far from any sea, a fog-drinking beetle and the Weddell seal.
Weddell Seal Reversible Bucket Hat $48
There's a Valley in the Sahara Full of Whale Skeletons, and Three More Places That Shouldn't Exist
A valley of whale skeletons with legs, 27 million tons of Saharan dust feeding the Amazon, a fossil forest under Antarctica, and water sealed underground for two billion years.
Sahara Fossil Whale Reversible Bucket Hat $48
An Octopus Has About 500 Million Neurons, and They Are Not All in Its Head
An octopus has around 500 million neurons, and more than half of them are not in its brain but spread down its eight arms.
No design for this one yet.
Octopus Intelligence: The Mind in the Arms, and 20,000 Mothers in the Deep
More than half of an octopus’s 500 million neurons are in its arms. This film follows the mind in the arms, down to 20,000 brooding mothers in the deep.
No design for this one yet.
There's a Lake at the Bottom of the Ocean, and It Has a Beach
No design for this one yet.
The Sahara Was Green for Six Thousand Years, and People Painted Swimmers on Its Rocks
Between about 11,000 and 5,000 years ago the Sahara was a savanna of grass, rivers and lakes, with roughly ten times the rain it gets today.
No design for this one yet.
A Bird That Never Lands, a Frog That Freezes Solid, a Butterfly That Finds a Forest It's Never Seen
A godwit that flies eleven days without landing, a frog that freezes solid every winter, and a butterfly that finds a forest it has never seen.
Monarch Butterfly Reversible Bucket Hat $48 · 3 pieces
There's a Lake Under Almost Four Kilometres of Antarctic Ice, and No One Has Seen It
Under an ice sheet up to almost 4,800 metres thick lie more than 600 lakes. This film goes down through the ice at Vostok Station to the lake beneath.
Emperor Penguin Reversible Bucket Hat $48
20,000 Octopuses in One Place, Two Miles Down Where Sunlight Never Reaches
A nursery of 20,000 octopuses, a shark that may be 400 years old, the deepest fish ever filmed, and the fifty-year feast when a whale dies.
No design for this one yet.

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Challenger Deep · 10,935 m down · the deepest known point of the ocean