🌺♀️🔬 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH POLL ♀️🔬🌺
To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting recent videos we produced with the help of women scientists. Vote for your favorite!
Deep Look posts
🍄BEHIND-THE-SCENES: BIRD’S NEST FUNGUS
Hey Deep Peeps! Ever heard of bird’s...
2025-03-08 02:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis Weevil Was Born in Your Rice and It’s Hungry
While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that its mom laid inside a single grain of rice. Once it hatches, it turns your rice into its new home.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it wit...
2025-03-07 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post4 Tiny Romances That Are Almost Too Freaky to Share
Praying mantises, barnacles, newts and earthworms have some of the strangest love lives.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our special episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Friday, February 14 from YouTube. Thanks and Happy Valentines Day! 💕 2025-02-11 21:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
4 of the Deadliest Tiny Hunters We've Ever Filmed
We are releasing a special episode featuring four of our favorite tiny but deadly hunters. Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our special episode. ...
2025-01-25 01:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostWant a Cozy, Free Home? Ask This Caterpillar How
As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home out of a blade of grass by weaving skeins of silk to close it shut. After growing up inside this “grass taco,” it emerges as a fuzzy butterfly that woos a mate with flirty courtship dances.
We ho...
2025-01-03 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post⭐POLL: TOP 5 VIDEOS RELEASED IN 2024⭐
Hey Deep Peeps! We have exciting new videos coming your way starting Jan. 7. Until then, the #DeepLook team wishes you a very ✨happy new year✨ and leaves you with a poll and a playlist ...
2024-12-31 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post📹🌰BEHIND THE SCENES: ACORN WEEVIL ANIMATION📹🌰
Deep Look has had another unbeweevible ye...
2024-12-27 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post❄️Happy Holidays and Happy New Year❄️
Hey Deep Peeps! Thank YOU for all your fantastic support throughout 2024! We're sending you warm holiday wishes and wishing you a very happy new year! We'll be back in January with all new videos. Until then...
We've put together a special winter playlist of videos from our archives so you ...
2024-12-23 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBeware of Flesh-Eating Sand Piranhas at the Beach
Known as sand piranhas, Excirolana chiltoni are tiny crustaceans that nibble at your feet – and draw blood – if you hang out on the wet sand at the beach. They live on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada, and the shorelines of Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Here's how to keep them from rui...
2024-12-07 02:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post😍🦗GREEN LACEWINGS POLL😍🦗
These insects are popular with gardeners and growers. Plus, they have several unique behaviors. What fascinates you the most about them?
If you haven’t seen our video about green lacewings yet, watch here!
2024-12-06 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Lacewing LOVE Is Noisier Than You Think
Green lacewings have babies that are prized as pest control. But before they can mate, they have to vibrate their bodies, making noises like purring cats or growling stomachs.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans ...
2024-11-16 00:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostThese Bees Hustle to Put Food on the Table
You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs! Alfalfa leafcutting bees take a punch from a flower for your ice cream. Blue orchard bees bring you almonds and sweet cherries. Plus, stingless bees protect their tasty hone...
2024-11-08 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post🩸🧛♂️BLOODSUCKERS POLL 🧛♂️🩸
Hey Deep Peeps! As you know it's our favorite holiday and we’ve got real bloodsuckers that know how to feast on human blood. What bloodsucking pest are you most horrified by? If you don’t see one of your top choices, let us know in the comments.
If you are still looking for a good...
2024-11-01 01:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostWhy Do Sunflowers Face the Sunrise?
To bring all the bees to the yard! These pollinators love warm, bright blooms early in the morning. But how did these plants end up facing east? It turns out they spend their whole life getting in just the right position.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You...
2024-10-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post🦉EVENT OCT. 19: DEEP LOOK SCREENING at KQED FEST 🦉
Hoo! Hoo! Don’t miss Deep Look’s host Laura Klivans and lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy in ...
2024-10-17 20:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post🌊EVENT: HOW INNOVATION CAN SAVE THE LIVING OCEAN (OCT. 15)🌊
Hey Deep Peeps! We are participating in an event exploring the innovations that help protect our oceans. Join Deep Look Producer Rosa Tuirán in conversation with some of the world’s leading experts in ocean health and ...
2024-10-13 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post5 Creepy Creatures Out to Suck Your Blood
Chances are you’ve got one of these blood-suckers lurking nearby. Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies are all looking to grab a bite ... of you. See exactly how they do it and what you can do to stop them.
We hope you enjoy this first look at o...
2024-10-05 22:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post🦎Sign Up for Deep Look's Nature Unseen Newsletter!🦎
Hey Deep Peeps! Deep Look now has a weekly newsletter called NATURE UNSEEN! Sign up here an...
2024-09-27 19:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis Mite-y Beetle Buries the Dead to Start a Family
Insects called burying beetles haul mouse carcasses down into the dirt and prep them to feed their future offspring. Also known as carrion beetles, they have some stiff competition … and some help from tiny traveling mites.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode!...
2024-09-21 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostHow Salamanders Skydive From the Tallest Trees in the World
When a hungry bird comes near them, wandering salamanders can jump off the tallest trees in the world, California’s coast redwoods, skydiving to a safe branch. Researchers decided to put them in a wind tunnel to investigate their daring moves in slow motion.
We hope you enjoy ...
2024-08-23 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post🖤🪰Behind-the-Scenes: Filming Petroleum Flies!🖤🪰
Rosa Tuirán, who produced our recent episode about petroleum flies, and Josh Cassidy, our lead producer and cinematographer, share what it took to film down in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. See Rosa and Josh in action in the behind-the-scenes video above and photos below.
<... 2024-08-13 21:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post📻👀Behind-the-Scenes: Deep Look on KQED’s Forum📻👀
We are still buzzing🐝 from hitting the radio waves earlier this week (Aug. 5) on Forum, KQED’s live call-in program, to talk all about Deep Look! From porcupine quills and oak galls, to ticks and slime mold, 2024-08-08 15:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
🎙️👂Deep Look on KQED’s Live Radio Program on Monday (8/5) 9am🎙️ 👂
Hey Deep Peeps! We are hitting the radio waves on KQED’s Forum program on Monday, Aug. 5 at 9am on 88.5FM to talk about how we make Deep Look!&nbs...
2024-08-03 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTar Pits Are a Death Trap. Except for This Fly.
In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, tiny petroleum flies and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt that oozes up to the surface. The larvae hunt among the fossilized bones of dire wolves, mammoths and saber-toothed cats.
We hope you enjoy this first look ...
2024-07-29 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post📹🐝MEXICO BEHIND THE SCENES#2: STINGLESS BEES🐝📹
Thanks to your wonderful support we were able to film not one but TWO Deep Look episodes in Oaxaca state, Mexico in March. We hope you enjoyed our episodes about cochineal insects and the vibrant re...
2024-07-20 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post🌊🔯SIX-RAYED SEA STAR POLL🌊🔯
Hey Deep Peeps! Six-rayed sea stars are way smaller than most starfish. Adults are the size of a bottle cap. What else surprises you about them? Dive into the hidden world of these starfish here: https://youtu.be/SSTfw1wuP9s 2024-07-13 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
These Baby Starfish Are Carnivorous Little Snowflakes
Six-rayed sea stars make great moms! Unlike most sea stars, mama six-rayed sea stars are VERY involved in their kids' lives, caressing and protecting their babies for months. When they're big enough, the youngsters venture out on their own to ruthlessly hunt down their tiny prey.
Fly Metamorphosis Is a Beautiful Nightmare
Like the beloved butterfly, a house fly goes through an incredible metamorphosis. To make its grand entry into the world, it deploys a specialized, fluid-filled balloon on its head called the ptilinum (till-EYE-num) to break open its pupal casing, freeing itself to buzz around your kitchen.
POLL:🌊🤿Happy #WorldOceansDay!🌊🤿
Hey Deep Peeps! What’s your favorite Deep Look ocean animal survival tick? If you don’t see one you like, propose others from our ocean playlist.
Find out more about World Oce...
2024-06-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post