Here's our ninth "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #9 of 12: Orb weaver spiders build exquisite spiral webs to catch insec...
Here's our eighth "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #8 of 12: You probably don’t spend as much time grooming as ducks and ge...
2020-12-16 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's our seventh "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #7 of 12: When is a dandelion not a dandelion? When it’s the closel...
Here's our sixth "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #6 of 12: Ensatinas are a colorful bunch of salamanders which you can see ...
Here's our fifth "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #5 of 12: Ever wanted to be invisible? The elusive glasswing butterfly –...
Here's our fourth "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #4 of 12: “You up?” “Oh, hey …” This blue-green sharpshooter is ...
2020-12-10 17:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's today's "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #3 of 12: What’s this Aedes aegypti mosquito doing? It’s laying some egg...
Here's today's "12 Days of Deep Look" GIF for our caption contest! Come up with a caption and post it in the comments. Be sure to like your favorites.
CAPTION THIS #2 of 12: What’s brown and sticky and on the move? An Indian walking stick...
We're wrapping up our #DeepLookColoring challenge series, and we hope you enjoyed sharing your creations! Thanks to everyone who participated, and here are the final submissions inspired by our episode, " 2020-12-08 17:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s 12 Days of Deep Look! We’re taking a look back at some of our favorite episodes from this past season with a CAPTION CONTEST! ✍️✍️✍️We're going to share 12 GIFs from these videos. Come up with a caption and po...
2020-12-07 20:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you enjoyed our #DeepLookColoring challenges! We’ve got one more for you. 🎨🖼️ Did you watch our latest episode about formidable flies? This final drawing was ...
2020-12-01 18:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post
⏳It’s time for our next GIF CHALLENGE! ⏳Our upcoming episode is all about how flies deftly dodge your swatters. 🪰🪰🪰 Every fly has a pair of limbs beneath its wings to help it make razor sharp turns in the air. But without them – t...
2020-11-23 17:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A fly has a pair of tiny, dumbbell-shaped limbs called halteres that were once a second pair of wings. They wield them to make razor-sharp turns and land out of reach on your ceiling. But don't despair – there *is* a trick to smacking these infu...
2020-11-20 19:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever wonder why it’s so hard to swat a fly? Our producer Gabriela Quirós answers why in her upcoming Deep Look episode. With the ongoing coronavirus restrictions, filming had to be conducted outdoors, and cinematographer Josh Cassidy f...
2020-11-16 18:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you watch our new episode about eelgrass sea hares? We hope you loved the video as much as we enjoyed your submissions for our latest coloring challenge!
2020-11-13 17:49:19 +0000 UTC
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We’ve got another #DeepLookColoring challenge for you! Eelgrass sea hares are tiny slugs with a hearty appetite for algae –– which helps their ecosystem stay healthy. You’ll learn more about them in tomorrow’s new episode (if you didn't ...
2020-11-09 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
These sea slugs may look like lazy, zebra-striped spoonfuls of jello, but eelgrass sea hares are actually environmental heroes. Their voracious appetite for algae helps keep underwater meadow ecosystems in balance –– which is ...
2020-11-06 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Have you heard of eelgrass sea hares? They're tiny sea slugs that look like zebra-striped spoonfuls of jello and live in underwater meadows of eelgrass. To film his upcoming Deep Look episode about these gastropod mollusks, pro...
2020-11-03 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
So many spooky spiders crawled into our inbox this week for our latest #DeepLookColoring challenge! Thank you so much for sharing them, and we love learning about our fans from all around the world, too. Another coloring chal...
2020-10-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve got a cool new episode coming your way soon about sea hare slugs! They get their name from the two tiny tentacles on the top of their heads called rhinophores. When producer Mike Seely and cinematographer Josh Cassidy were filming, t...
2020-10-29 18:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
With Halloween just a few days away, we’ve got another Deep Look coloring challenge for you! Here’s a spooky spider drawing that you can decorate to celebrate the holiday this weekend. We’ll be featuring your colored drawings and sharing the...
2020-10-27 18:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
We received some beautiful submissions last week, and we're excited to share them with you:
Poulami Saha 2020-10-26 18:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
🎨ICYMI: Have you seen our latest Deep Look episode about galloping starfish? You can watch it here –– and here’s a starfish drawing you can decorate, too! We’...
2020-10-21 20:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
⏳It’s time for our next GIF CHALLENGE! ⏳Our upcoming episode is all about galloping sea stars. ⭐ This GIF shows a special structure that’s located on their topsides; it lets in sea water that powers their hundreds of tube feet. Can you g...
2020-10-19 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
They may look cute and colorful, but starfish are actually voracious predators. To sniff out and capture their prey, they rely on hundreds of water-propelled tube feet, each with a fiercely independent streak.
We hope you enjoy ...
Our lead producer and cinematographer, Josh Cassidy, has filmed plenty of sea stars, also known as starfish, over the course of his career. "But I’d never seen one bounce before until I saw some footage online that researchers 2020-10-13 18:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
We were thrilled to see your wonderful masterpieces fly into our inbox this past week! We hope you had fun, and we’d like to give a huge thanks to all of our fans who reached out and sent us your work. Take a closer look a...
In honor of our upcoming episode about a peregrine falcon family, we’re sharing a drawing that you can decorate! We’ll be featuring six of your colored drawings and sharing them with our fans, so please email them to kqedscience@gmail.com or s...
2020-10-05 20:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
High up in their 300-foot tower penthouse, falcon stars Annie and Grinnell's romance quickly gets real, as they face the tough demands of raising a family. They furiously guard their eggs from invaders, then stuff their screaming newborn chicks wi...
2020-10-02 17:04:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
We've got some great news to share! Our episode, "This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies" is the win...
2020-10-01 21:31:43 +0000 UTC View Post