I think I got a small animal!

- Whaddya got?

- I got a seahorse!

- What, it's not a seahorse...

- I got a seahorse!

- Oh, did you really?

- Yeah!

- Are you kidding me?

- No, look!

(dramatic music)

(splashing)

- As the morning sun rose,

it cast a golden glow over the rolling dunes.

Waves crashed upon the sandy shores,

and as they receded one set at a time,

the water levels dropped, signaling the arrival of low tide.

I could sense adventure in the air,

and as I worked my way down the shoreline,

I looked out across the Atlantic Ocean,

and envisioned the challenge set before me.

Wow!

This is beautiful, look at this,

you got pelicans right back here,

and today we're at the Key Biscane Nature Center,

and we're gonna do something a little bit different.

To catch creatures today I'm actually gonna

bring the crew out there with me.

You guys are actually gonna put down the main cameras,

pick up Go Pros and nets.

There's a lot of water to cover

and the more nets we have in the water,

the better chance we have of finding some creatures.

Today's expedition Beyond the Tide is a little different,

as we will be working in conjunction

with the Biscayne Nature Center.

Located on the Northern end of Crandon Park,

this multi-functional center

is a not-for-profit organization

dedicated to environmental education

and citizen participation

in the protection of our natural environment.

Using dip-nets, our aim was to catch native species,

and present them in a controlled setting,

before releasing them back into the wild.

We were told that there were

many creatures we could come across,

but nothing was more coveted than the elusive seahorse.

So, with nets in the water, the search was on.

(mellow music)

- [Mark] Let me see, what'd you get?

- [Mario] We got a little lobster!

- [Mark] Oh my gosh!

(lighthearted music)

- [Mario] I got a shrimp!

What'd you catch, Coyote?

Lemme see.

- [Coyote] Oh, yeah.

- [Mario] Ah ostraciidae, that's cool.

Yeah, put them in the bucket.

- [Mark] Come on, seahorse!

- [Mario] We got a pipefish!

- [Mark] No way!

- [Mario] He was wiggling right through.

- [Mark] Look at that!

Oh man, that's awesome!

- We're one step closer to a seahorse.

- [Mark] Hey, great find.

- Same family.

- [Mark] Yeah, that was awesome.

Look at all those fish!

Nice!

You're doin' great!

- [Mario] Ah here's a cool one.

He's really puffed up.

- Oh, man, he's beautiful.

- Know what this is missing?

- A seahorse.

- Definitely, gotta catch a seahorse.

- [Mark] Coyote.

- Yeah?

- [Mark] You got competition, man.

- Wow, look at all those kids.

They got 'em out here trying to catch seahorses for us.

This is a lot harder than I thought.

I thought we'd catch lots of seahorses.

We've gone quite a ways, covered some serious ground,

found all sorts of cool creatures.

We got pipefish, puffer fish,

file fish, all fish, we need a seahorse,

which is also technically a fish.

And a horse, I guess, at the same time.

All right, keep searching.

- [Mark] Come on, come on, come here,

I think I got a small animal!

- Whaddya got?

- [Mark] I got a seahorse!

- What, it's not a seahorse...

- [Mark] I got a seahorse!

- Oh, did you really?

- [Mark] Yeah!

- Are you kidding me?

- [Mark] No, look!

- [Coyote] No way!

- [Mark] Aw, man, look at that!

That is our star animal!

- [Coyote] We got it!

- [Mark] We got a seahorse!

- Wow! You did it!

- Yeah!

That's a wrap, folks!

We'll I'd say it's a success, we have two buckets

full of little sea creatures,

but the most important thing is we caught a seahorse.

Yeah!

Look at all of these sea creatures!

- [Mark] We did really well!

- We did amazing!

Considering the fact we were only out there

in the seagrass for about an hour.

Look at all of these creatures!

Okay, now we're not going to go into detail

about all of these animals,

but I at least wanted to take a look

and get them up close for the camera for just a second

and then we're gonna get on to our star feature creature.

Okay, now these are trunkfish, or cowfish,

but because these are so little, these are babies,

they're actually adorably referred to as peafish.

I mean that is about the cutest little fish I've ever seen.

I'm gonna turn him like this.

Look at his little face.

- [Mark] Look at his little beak.

- He's got that little trunk up front,

those big, buggy eyes and obviously it's that

green coloration that gives them the name peafish.

I know, you wanna get back in the water,

here we go, plop!

Bloop!

There you go.

Now those are file fish. Check that out.

They're very flat, which I imagine

that's where they get their name from, filefish,

and they have a really distinct horn on top of their heads.

Come here, little fishy.

Woah, they're quick.

Woah!

He jumped right outta there!

See, when you zoom in on the top of his head there...

You see that?

That, there you go, you see that?

- [Mark] Yeah.

- Keep your focus there.

There you go, now you can see it.

Woah, woah, woah, I feel ya.

He wants to get back in the water.

There you go.

Plopped him right back in there.

Now we have to keep all of these sea creatures in water.

You'll notice that each and every one of them

is I fresh seawater, and in case you're wondering,

yes they all will be released back out into the wild

once we take a close look.

Okay should we keep it with fish?

- [Mark] Yeah let's stick with fish.

- Okay, which one do you guys wanna look at next?

- [Mark] How about that spiky one over there?

- Oh, yes, the porcupine puffer fish.

Now when we caught him he was deflated,

and as soon as they get agitated, they puff up their bodies.

They're incredibly sharp.

Let me get him out of here.

He's gonna stay puffed up until we release him

back out into the ocean.

And he's a lot heavier than you would think,

so just keeping him in the palm of my hand...

My fingers are all wrinkly, you see this,

from being in the ocean water all day,

and that makes my fingers much more susceptible

to those spines.

He feels like a little pincushion.

Non-venomous, but go ahead,

Mark put your hand out there,

I'm gonna actually place it, put your hand flat.

- [Mark] Oh, okay.

- And tell everybody, he's actually heavy, isn't he?

- [Mark] Oh! Yeah, spiky!

Yeah, it weighs...

So, I'm guessing that's not just air.

- No, that's not just air,

he's got water inside of his body.

(squeak)

Oh! You hear him squeakin'?

He's squeakin'!

Now, when it's deflated, it looks like a normal fish,

and the coolest defense about these creatures

is that obviously they're capable of puffing up

into a spiky ball.

They've actually found sharks before that have died

from eating one of these fish.

They get it into their mouth and then, ppfft!

It puffs up like a balloon, and you can imagine

how painful that would be to have a throat full of spikes.

And while your camera's down there, Mark,

you see this other fish that we have?

That is a scorpionfish.

- [Mark] Ooh, sounds bad.

- [Coyote] Yeah, they have spines

on their back pectoral fins.

I'm not going to pick it up because if I do

I will be stung and it's incredibly painful.

- [Mark] So is a scorpionfish at all like an angler fish?

I notice it has an appendage on the front of its mouth.

- [Coyote] No, angler fishes use those appendages

of the front of their faces to lure in prey.

These appendages growing off the scorpionfish

are more used for camouflage.

They are ocean floor dwelling fish,

and it's more like a gobi in the way

that it will move across the bottom,

and that's how people oftentimes run across these fish.

If they're on the bottom of the ocean floor,

and you're barefoot and you're walking,

and you step on this...

Yeah, you're gonna be in some serious pain.

You know who we forgot?

- [Mark] The little puffer?

- [Coyote] The little puffer, he's hiding in there.

- [Mark] He's hiding by the scorpionfish for protection.

- [Coyote] See, he's clever.

Here let me move...

This is a little risky here.

Oh boy, oh boy.

Okay, check this out.

This little pufferfish,

watch if I just kinda tickle his belly...

Up, up, up, up!

Look at that!

- [Mark] Is that air or water?

- [Coyote] That is air.

That is air that he just...

That little chirping noise is him sucking in the air.

There you go, up, up, up, up, up!

- [Mark] Let's see what else we have.

Let's move on from fish.

What else do we have besides fish?

- Let's look at some of the crustaceans.

Now, I caught this one.

This is just a little, tiny baby, but that is a spider crab.

That is a little, tiny, baby spider crab.

- [Mark] Why is it called a spider crab?

- [Coyote] Because of its legs.

They look like a spider when they're walking.

- [Mark] Do those stay small or do they grow?

- No, these grow.

They can grow to be pretty large, actually,

I mean, big, huge, huge.

- [Mark] No way!

- Huge crabs, yeah.

- [Mark] But those wouldn't be out here in the--

- No, they're out deep.

They're out deep.

As they get larger they move deeper out into the ocean

it is a deep sea crab species.

- [Mark] So it's kind of like