All Creatures Podcast

National Geographic filmmaker Bertie Gregory returns to All Creatures Podcast to share the story behind Wolves Up Close, filmed in the bitter cold around Hudson Bay. He shares what seven years following Kona’s pack taught him about how wolves lead and hunt, and recounts a close encounter with a polar bear. Chris and Bertie explore why we love dogs yet fear w...

El Niño is strengthening across the Pacific, and its effects can ripple far beyond the ocean.

Chris breaks down what El Niño actually is, how it shifts weather patterns around the world, and why this event matters for people, wildlife, and ecosystems.

From drought, flooding, and heat to disrupted marine food webs, coral bleaching, wildfire risk, and changing bre...

Imagine living for more than 200 years in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Meet the bowhead whale, the longest-lived mammal known to science and an extraordinary survivor of the Arctic.

Chris and Angie discover what makes bowheads so special, from enormous, ice-breaking skulls and blubber nearly half a metre thick to the longest baleen plates of any whale. T...

Chris and Angie return after a National Geographic event with photographer Amy Vitale and introduce an episode on sand dollars, prompted by Angie finding live sand dollars with her family and wanting answers to her kids’ questions.

They describe sand dollars as flat, burrowing echinoderms with an internal calcium-carbonate “test,” tiny spines and cilia, petaloid patt...

Imagine a shark swimming through the Arctic today that was already alive before the United States existed. Greenland sharks are thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth, with research suggesting they can live for around 400 years—and potentially longer. Even more astonishing, females may take approximately 150 years to reach reproductive maturity. These slow-growi...