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🗳️POLL: Giant Water Bug

Have you seen our new video about giant water bugs aka 'toe biters🦶'? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfcEj4GhVQ)

What are your favorite facts about the...

Sneak Peek: Don't Go Chasing Water Bugs

Giant water bugs -- aka "toe-biters" -- pack one of the most painful bites of any insect. But they make the best dads ever. Rather than leaving the survival of his eggs to chance, dad will haul them around piggy-back style for weeks, until they ha...

🌞SUMMER POLL: TICKS!🕷️🕷️

It’s officially summer🌞 and those hiking trails are alive with blood-sucking 🩸TICKS🕷️🕷️! What’s your favorite tick anatomy fact? Let us know below.

Also, check out our video “How Ticks Dig In With a Mouth Full of Hooks�...

🏆AWARD WIN for DEEP LOOK!

Hey Deep Look fans! We've won a Northern California Emmy for our episode: Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? 🐛

🎉Congratulations to our producer Mike Seely and also Kevin Collins (2022-06-17 23:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post

POLL: 🌊Happy World Oceans Day!🌊

What’s YOUR favorite Deep Look ocean animal? If you don’t see one you like, let us know who’s your favorite in the comments below.

Also, you can watch all of our ocean videos from this playlist: 2022-06-08 23:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak Peek: This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries

The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggot...

🐙🦑#CephalopodWeek EVENT JUNE 10🐙🦑

Deep Look is teaming up with NPR's @SciFri (Science Friday) to celebrate everyone's favorite “brainy” marine invertebrates. 🐙🦑 

J...

POLL: 🦦World Otter Day!🦦

Hi Deep Look fans! It's #WorldOtterDay!  What's YOUR favorite fascinating fact about sea otters?

But “sea-riously” let us know your otter ...

🐢Happy World Turtle Day!🐢

Let’s #shellabrate! Watch crazy cute baby turtles take their lake back in this video from our Deep Look archives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYFdpNpkMY.

🔎How Deep Look Filmed Silkworms🐛🐛🔎

Have you seen Deep Look's NEW video, Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgavTIBQ_Z0)  If you have, you know th...

POLL: 🐝Happy #WorldBeeDay from Deep Look! 🐝

Hey Deep Look Fans! What's your favorite Deep Look bee episode? Learn about these bees and more with this special pollinators playlist:

2022-05-21 00:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak Peek: Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom

Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillars of a fuzzy, white moth — thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to 10 city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving mac...

🏆🏆 🏆 Deep Look Northern California Emmy Nominees

Hey Deep Peeps! 3️ of our episodes have been nominated for the 2022 Northern California Emmy Awards! The winners will be announced on Saturday, June 11.  Wish us luck! 🐞🍀

What would your vote be?

2022-05-13 20:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post

💐Happy Mother’s Day💐Insect POLL

Who is the BEST Deep Look insect 🦗🐝🦟 mom?

If you don’t see one of your favorites, let us know who’s *your* favorite in the comments.

We also created this special Mother’s Day Playlist (2022-05-06 21:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post

🔎Field Notes:🔎Barnacle Sex!

Hey Deep Look Fans! Have you seen our 🎉150th episode🎉 about the surprisingly vigorous love lives of barnacles? They might just look like crusty little rocks but barnacles are actually crustaceans related to shrimp and crab.

To film �...

Sneak Peek: Barnacles Go To Unbelievable Lengths To Hook Up

Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life. These crusty little animals — related to crabs and shrimp — have the longest penis of any animal relative to their body size. It’s u...

👀DEEP LOOK LIVESTREAM EVENT!! 👀 FRI, APRIL 29 @ 5PM PT!

Join us live for a bilingual* YouTube livestream event about axolotls and hummingbirds with Deep Look producer Gabriela Quirós and scientists.

You'll meet Víctor M. Ortega-Jiménez, a biophysicist at Georgia Institute of Technology who stu...

👹Name that ANT Contest👹

Hey Deep Look fans! Have you seen our honeypot ants🍯🐜🐜 video? If you have, you know that some honeypot ants are selected to swell up into golden orbs full of sweet elixir to feed their colony.  

Scientists call the ants that tu...

Sneak Peek: Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters into Jugs of Nectar

Deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants  stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their largest sisters’ mouths. When food is sc...

🌊Deep Look in International Ocean Film Festival🌊

📢Calling all oceans fans! Deep Look has been selected for The International Ocean Film Festival April 7-10 in our hometown San Francisco, California.

Our episode “ 2022-04-01 03:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post

🔬Meet a Scientist: Jillian Cowles🔬

Hey Deep Peeps - As a part of celebrating “Women’s History Month” we thought you’d like to know more about Jillian Cowles, the scientist that helped us with our video, 🦂 2022-03-29 20:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post

🔎Field Notes: Vinegaroons! 🔎

Hey Deep Look fans, have you seen our NEW video, “The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes”? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxh_M2risw)

In...

Sneak Peek: The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes

The vinegaroon – also known as a whip scorpion – looks like a Frankenstein creation of monster body parts. But unlike true scorpions, it doesn’t use venom to defend itself from predators. Instead, it aims its tail at their face and sprays a ...

It's International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate we are resharing Q&As from our archives with some of the women that make Deep Look possible.  First, le...

DEEP LOOK In-Person Event - March 4

Hey Deep Look fans Happy @World Wildlife Day 🐦🦈🐆 

To celebrate we are doing an in-person event this Friday night!   

Field Notes: 🍄The Cage Fungus🍄

Hi Deep Look fans! Have you seen our NEW delightfully disgusting video: This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death all about the cage fungus?2022-02-26 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Deep Look Wins Society of Professional Journalists Award!

🎺🎺Hi Deep Look Fans - We're excited to share some great news! The team has won an award 🏆from the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Northern California chapter. We received top honors at their awards ceremony t...

Sneak Peek: This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death

The cage fungus looks and smells like decaying meat — on purpose. Its goopy lattice gives off a rotten odor that attracts flies, which help spread its spores far and wide. It’s like a bee to a flower, but way more macabre and putrid.

2022-02-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy Valentine's Day from Deep Look

Hey Deep Peeps! Happy Valentine's Day!  We put together a little "wild love" playlist for you with videos from our archives that highlight the wild and wonderful rituals of courtship and mating in nature. We hope you enjoy watching! 2022-02-14 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak Peek: Flying Termites Take a Dangerous Journey to a New Life

After the first big rain, western subterranean termites swarm by the thousands. Hungry ants, spiders and birds pick them off as they emerge from the soil. The survivors fly off to find mates, and quickly drop their delicate wings to start new unde...