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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 4h

Manta rays play a vital role in the functioning of ocean habitats. Reef manta rays, in particular, are key drivers of nutrient cycling across coral reefs and beyond. Follow the reef manta on its nutrient-cycling journey! Illustrations by Kelsey Manners-Dickson | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the reefs of D’Arros Island in the Seychelles, a sabre squirrelfish—the largest of the squirrelfish species—rests in caves and crevices during the day. At night, these nocturnal fish emerge to patrol the reefs and lagoons, hunting crabs, shrimp, and small fish. 📷: Shane Gross | © SOSF

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you thinking about applying for our Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant but not sure what our judges are looking for? Thomas Peschak and Kathy Moran, who lead this grant, share their insights. More about the grant here: saveourseas.com/ocean-storyt...

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The most notable feature of Atlantic nurse sharks is undoubtedly the pair of sensory barbels near their mouth. These whisker-like structures help them detect prey hidden in sand and sediment. 📷: Christopher Vaughan-Jones

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Applications are open for our Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant. Apply here: grants.saveourseas.com More about the grant can be found here: saveourseas.com/ocean-storyt...

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharks, rays and chimaeras comprise more than 1,290 species. Each month, we're celebrating a new species, ranging from some of your favourites to the lesser-known and weirdly wonderful. Our Ray of the Month? The reef manta ray. 📷 : Jasmine Corbett 📷 : Dillys Pouponeau 📷 : Christopher Leon

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In this episode of the #WoS podcast, we discuss how to share the water with sharks safely, ethically and responsibly with wildlife photographer and filmmaker Luke Saddler. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... 📷: Luke Saddler

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The principle of countershading is simple: darker on top, lighter beneath. For the whitetip reef shark, this means a darker dorsal side that melts into the depths when viewed from above, and a pale belly that dissolves into sunlit surface waters when viewed from below. 📷: Jake Wilton

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're wrapping up Shark of the Month with a photo carousel of the majestic ocean wanderers we featured this month: the whale shark. 📷: Jonathan R. Green 📷: Jake Wilton 📷: Acacia Johnson | © Save Our Seas Foundation 📷: Guy Stevens

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today is International Coastal Cleanup Day, an initiative dedicated to protecting our oceans. Worldwide, people are coming together to remove marine litter from beaches, rivers, lakes, and waterways. Illustrations by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In this episode of World of Sharks, we travel to Cameroon with Ghofrane Labyedh, who shares her findings and stories from this coastline and the key lessons she's learned along the way. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... 📷: Hugues Karismatik

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean, yet they prey primarily on the smallest – zooplankton. But they don't eat only that... 🎥: Gilles Charvet | © Artlist 🎥: Byron Dilkes

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our new Save Our Seas collection has dropped! Bold prints, ocean-inspired designs, made for a good cause. Shop yours now: shopsaveourseas.com

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hammerheads tilt when swimming; here's why. 🎥: Michael Scholl | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Chilean catshark is endemic to the coastal waters of the Southeast Pacific from Peru to Chile. An oviparous species, the redspotted catshark — as it's also known — lays eggs in nesting sites along the coast's kelp forests. 📷: Vladimir G. | © SUBELAB- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The largest shark in our oceans, at an impressive 18 metres (yes, the length of a school bus!), there is much more to these gentle giants than meets the eye. Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Specialist hunters or opportunistic predators? SOSF project leader Erick Higuera and his team have been following a group of killer whales across the Gulf of California, known as the 'Moctezuma pod'. Time and time again, the researchers witnessed the pod hunting sharks and rays. 📷: Erick Higuera

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this episode, we dive deep into the fin trade with Dr Diego Cardeñosa and explore how molecular biology, forensic genetics, int. policy and conservation can work together to tackle one of the greatest threats facing sharks today. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... 📷: Muhammad Ichsan

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sharks, rays and chimaeras comprise more than 1,290 species. In honour of the recently celebrated International Whale Shark Day (30 August), we're kicking off Shark of the Month with, you guessed it, the whale shark. 📷: Simon Hilbourne 📷: Christopher Leon 📷: Guy Stevens 📷: Byron Dilkes

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This past weekend, we celebrated the gentle giants of our oceans on International Whale Shark Day, celebrated annually on 30 August. Illustrations by Kelsey Manners Dickson Animation by Caiti Allison Footage by Byron Dilkes

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Three shark species in one shot?! Can you identify these sharks from their stills? Above is a Caribbean reef shark. In the middle is a tiger shark. Below is a lemon shark. Did you guess them all correctly? 📷: Christopher Leon

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nocturnal whitetip reef sharks spend their days differently from their nights. During the day, they rest on ledges or in caves, sometimes in a 'cuddle puddle'. At night, they scour reefs for prey, using scent, sound, and electroreception to detect fish and cephalopods. 📷: Christopher Leon

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How does the largest fish in our ocean prey on the smallest organisms in our ocean, zooplankton? By filter feeding. Gaping their mouths, they filter plankton from the water with their gill rakers. They are able to filter an impressive 600,000 litres of water per hour. 📷: Simon Hilbourne

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Kicking off S10 of the #WoS podcast, Rafid Shidqi shares the unseen world of the pelagic thresher shark, from discovering where pregnant females hang out to breaking down the relationship between communities and shark fishing in Alor. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... 📷: Rafid Shidqi

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tiger sharks are among the largest shark species in our ocean and easily one of the more recognisable sharks, distinguished by their vertical stripes and blunt, flattened snout. 📷: Jake Wilton

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SOSF project leader and PhD researcher Rachel Newsome has been testing different methods of attaching biologgers to reef manta rays to unlock secrets about their movements and behaviour. More here: saveourseas.com/tagging-the-... Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Freckled guitarfish occur in the western Atlantic Ocean, favouring sandy, muddy or weedy shorelines near patch reefs, when not actively hunting. As with all guitarfish, they swim like sharks usually do: through side-to-side sweeps of their tail. 📷: Bryant Turffs | © Marine Megafauna Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In conversation, Oscar-winning filmmaker Craig Foster and Save Our Seas Foundation CEO Dr James Lea discuss storytelling as a way to catalyse change for our shared future. See the full video here: saveourseas.com/reconnecting... Filmed by Mathilda Leibzig | © SOSF

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Across reefs of the Indo-West Pacific, these potato groupers don't shy away from divers with cameras. Their inquisitive nature leads them right up to the lens of photographers, especially in MPAs where their species is conserved. 📷: Dan Beecham 📷: James Loudon 📷: Rainer von Brandis

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The powerful jaws of the giant moray eel hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth. That’s not all; this fish has pharyngeal jaws - they’re secondary jaws found in the throat. While feeding, they propel these jaws into the mouth to grip and pull prey backwards.

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Victoria is a city with the ocean in its veins. And, as of this year, seascapes adorn the city’s very walls. Mahé Ocean Murals, a public art initiative, transformed blank walls into 12 vibrant artworks. 📷: Yoshi Yanagita 📷: Tré Packard | © PangeaSeed More here: saveourseas.com/mahe-ocean-m...

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ever sought to scratch an itch against the uniquely rough skin of a shark? Trevallies have. 🎥: Nico Fassbender 🎥: Luke Saddler 🎥: Alfredo Barroso | Artlist 🎥: Sebastian Staines 🎥: Byron Dilkes 🎥: Gilles Charvet | Artlist Edited by Caiti Allison

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The sicklefin devil ray, or Chilean devil ray, gets its former name from the strongly curved, swept-back tips of its pectoral fins. 🎥: Jorge Fontes 🎥: Jasmine Corbett | © @mantatrust.bsky.social

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Donning what looks like striped sleepwear, the pyjama catshark is aptly named. Endemic to South Africa's coastal waters, their countershading helps with camouflage as they evade predators and hunt for their own prey too, along kelp beds and rocky reefs. 📷: Mac Stone | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Endemic to the Eastern Tropical Pacific which stretches from the Gulf of California to Peru, the scalloped bonnethead is the smallest of the nine recognised hammerhead species. 📷: Emilio Posada

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In the living waters of South Africa, a liquid treasure box holds marine species found nowhere else on earth. One of these is the iridescent nudibranch. A reflection of the kaleidoscopic landscape they call home, they possess iridescent colouration. 📷: Jannes Landschoff | Sea Change Project

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now you can wear your heart on your sleeve ... strike that, on your chest! The Save Our Seas Foundation Store offers a range of merchandise with purpose. Your purchase helps spread awareness and supports our mission to protect ocean life for future generations. Shop here: shopsaveourseas.com

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Jellyfish have been adrift in our oceans for over 500 million years! Soft-bodied, fragile, and often transparent, they're 95% water and don't have a brain or a spine. 📷: Matthew During 📷: Jannes Landschoff | © Sea Change Project 📷: Christopher Leon 📷: Jasmine Corbett | © Manta Trust

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sleek with their aerodynamic fins and powerful tails, sharks seem honed for top speeds. But which sharks are the fastest? Find out here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... Edited by Caiti Allison

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reef manta aggregations are seasonal elsewhere, so why do they gather almost daily, around D'Arros Island? It's for zooplankton. Their continued presence can be attributed to a consistent food supply of tiny animals available year-round. 📷: Shane Gross Photography | © SOSF

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The SuperSharks have assembled for Shark Awareness Day! Help champion the SuperSharks: pick your protector, from the mighty great white to the extraordinary thresher shark wielding its tail or the intelligent manta ray, and don your very own SuperSharks merch! Shop merch here: shopsaveourseas.com

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

White sharks are the most iconic of all sharks. They are large and imposing, but surprisingly elusive, in part owing to their ambush predation techniques. They take advantage of low light situations to ambush unsuspecting prey, famously breaching in some locations. 🎥: Tom Campbell

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

With world-renowned biodiversity and a starring role in influencing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, a visit to the Galapagos Islands will almost definitely include a sighting of the Galapagos sea lion - the archipelago's most abundant marine mammal. 📷: Christopher Vaughan-Jones

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Blacktip reef sharks are mesopredators: they sit somewhere in the middle of reef food webs. Reef sharks, especially resident ones, are predators, prey, competitors, and conduits of nutrients; but we risk losing them faster than we fully understand the jobs they do. 📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Blue-barred parrotfish are always born female, so how did this particular reef fish become male? Fish from this species are protogynous hermaphrodites. This means they first function as females, and some individuals later transform into males. 📷: Shane Gross | © Save Our Seas Foundation

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This World of Sharks podcast episode is an extra special one – it’s our 100th! To celebrate this milestone, our host Dr Isla Hodgson looks back across 100+ hours of conversations about sharks with scientists and conservationists from around the world. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A shimmering orb in azure ocean waters, bait balls are all about safety in numbers. In formation, their lateral line - sense organs on individual fish - enable small schooling fish to move in perfect unison, a natural defence mechanism when under threat. 📷: Jasmine Corbett | © Manta Trust

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There is just one week left to apply for our Small Grants! Applications close on July 3rd, 18:00 CET. 📅 Apply here: grants.saveourseas.com 🔗 📷: Jake Wilton

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Western Indian Ocean has 270 known species of sharks, rays and chimaeras - that's roughly 21% of global shark diversity. But nearly half of all these species are threatened with extinction. 📷: Simon Hilbourne

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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

These befreckled cuties are ‘spotless’ at birth. Young Atlantic spotted dolphins only develop their patterning when they pass their first birthday. One can tell a dolphin’s age by the phase of their spots, with fully matured individuals showing spots that have ‘fused’ densely. 🎥: Sebastian Staines

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