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Meet the Sharpshooter Research Team | #DeepLook #Shorts
38 views / 0 likes - addedProducer Mimi Schiffman collaborated with UC Berkeley researcher Liz Clark and Georgia Tech researcher Elio Challita for our episode about sharpshooter pee. Watch the full video here https://youtu.be/AWLIlc-IRK4Merry Go - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeo
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These Solar-Powered Carnivorous Flatworms Divide and Conquer | Deep Look
35 views / 0 likes - addedTiny marine flatworms called acoels hunt for prey in coral reefs. They're referred to as plant-animals'' because they've got a partnership with photosynthetic algae that live inside of them. But this acoel's real superpower is its ability to regenerate an
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This Weevil Has Puppet Vibes But Drills Like a Power Tool | Deep Look
35 views / 0 likes - addedThis fuzzy acorn weevil cant crack open acorns like a woodpecker or chomp through them like a squirrel. Instead, she uses her incredibly long snout, called a rostrum, to power-drill through an acorns tough and resilient shell. And it's not just lunch on h
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A Drain Flys Happy Place Is Down Your Pipes | Deep Look
42 views / 0 likes - addedEver wonder how those tiny, jumpy flies got onto your bathroom wall? Well, they came out of your sink drain after growing up down in the pipes. A goofy, long mustache, fuzzy wings and some aquabatics help them survive in that soggy environment.SUBSCRIBE t
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Sharpshooter Insects are Real Wizzes at Whizzing | Deep Look
36 views / 0 likes - addedSharpshooters survive by guzzling a lot of plant sap. But drinking all of that liquid nutrition presents a problem for these tiny insects: How do they move it all out? Easy. They've perfected a super-propulsive urination technique using a special catapult
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So Where do Jellyfish REALLY Come From?? | Deep Look
47 views / 0 likes - addedWhen grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging tentacles. But their best trick is when they clone th
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Yep, Honeybees Make Honey ... and Bread | #DeepLook #Shorts
47 views / 0 likes - addedHoneybees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread. Watch the full episode here https://youtu
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This Daring Fly Swims in a Shimmering Bubble Shield | Deep Look
174 views / 0 likes - addedCovered in a shiny bubble, the alkali fly scuba dives into the harsh waters of California's Mono Lake. Thanks to an abundance of hair and water-repellent wax, this remarkable insect remains dry while embarking on a quest for tasty algae and a place to lay
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Lights are Fireflies' Love Language | #DeepLook #Shorts
123 views / 0 likes - addedMost firefly flashes are pure romance, a sexy form of skywriting Watch the full episode here https://youtu.be/oWdCMFvgFbo
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This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bees Nest | Deep Look
128 views / 0 likes - addedA bee fly looks a bit like a bee, but its a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bees hard work. The bees dig underground nests and fill them with pollen they collect in the form of stylish pollen pants. As the bees are toiling on their ne
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This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime | Deep Look
103 views / 0 likes - addedMost of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of: mucus!SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! https://www.youtube.com/us
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Watch Ladybugs Go From Goth to Glam | Deep Look
99 views / 0 likes - addedLadybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don't start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for aphids. Once they've bulked up, they transform, shedding
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Cockroach vs. Hydraulic Press: Who Wins? | Deep Look
160 views / 0 likes - addedDo cockroaches -- those daring, disgusting disease vectors -- have anything at all to offer us? Scientists think so. They compressed American roaches with a hydraulic press, subjecting them to the force of 900 times their body weight. Don't worry (or do):
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Have You Met a Hagfish? Its About Slime | Deep Look
173 views / 0 likes - addedWhat keeps the boneless, jawless hagfish thriving after more than 300 million years? SLIME. The goop it exudes a mix of mucus and special protein cells expands to 10,000 times its original volume in less than half a second, potentially clogging the gills
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Yellowjackets Roll Tiny Meatballs For The Babies | Deep Look
136 views / 0 likes - addedWhy is that yellowjacket crashing your BBQ? Well, she wants what you're having: burgers, hot dogs, fish and turkey. But she doesn't eat them herself. Her nest's larvae need that protein to develop. So she carves up your dinner and makes teeny-tiny meatbal
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Fire Ants Turn Into a Stinging Life Raft to Survive Floods | Deep Look
186 views / 0 likes - addedDuring hurricane season, as floodwater flows into their nest, red fire ants build a terrifying raft out of their own interlocking bodies. If you wade into this ant raft nightmare, youll likely get a vicious bite and sting.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! https://w
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This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries | Deep Look
169 views / 0 likes - addedThe spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but its 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 maggots turn the
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Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom | Deep Look
165 views / 0 likes - addedThose precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillar of a fuzzy white moth thousands of them. Silkworms spin a cocoon with a single strand of silk up to ten city blocks long. Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that ca
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The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes | Deep Look
178 views / 0 likes - addedThe vinegaroon also known as a whip scorpion looks like a Frankenstein creation of monster body parts. But unlike true scorpions, it doesnt use venom to defend itself from predators. Instead, it aims its tail at their face and sprays a blast of acid that
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Australian Walking Stick Insects Are Three Times Weirder Than You Think | Deep Look
188 views / 1 likes - addedTake the PBS Digital Studios audience survey! https://to.pbs.org/2021surveyThe Australian walking stick is a master of deception, but a twig is just one of its many disguises. Before its even born, it mimics a seed. In its youth it looks and acts like an
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Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters into Jugs of Nectar | Deep Look
163 views / 0 likes - addedDeep 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 scarce in the deser
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This Mushroom Fakes Its Own Death To Trick Flies | Deep Look
163 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look!
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Once a Spawn a Time: Horseshoe Crabs Mob the Beach | Deep Look
178 views / 0 likes - addedHorseshoe crabs may look scary, but when it's springtime in Delaware Bay, millions of these arthropods show they're lovers, not fighters. They lay masses of blue-green eggs up on the shore. At just the right time, they pop and release the larvae within th
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The Axolotl Salamander Doesnt Wanna Grow Up | Deep Look
1,075 views / 2 likes - addedNative to the lakes of Mexico City, the axolotl stays in the water its whole life, swimming with a tail fin and breathing through frilly external gills. Its nearly extinct in the wild, but survives in research labs the world over, studied for its amazing
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You Can't Unsee the Assassin Bugs Dirty Work | Deep Look
257 views / 0 likes - addedUnder the bright yellow petals of a tarweed plant, an insect known as the assassin bug kills its caterpillar victim by stabbing it over and over. But does this perpetrator have an accomplice? Sticky droplets all over the plant could be a clue.SUBSCRIBE to
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This Bee Builds Sandcastles at the Beach | Deep Look
201 views / 0 likes - addedIt might seem peculiar to see bees at the beach. But the bumblebee-mimic digger bee (Anthophora bomboides stanfordiana) makes its home at beaches in Northern California and Oregon. Once theyve mated, the females spend the spring digging their nests into s
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Firebrats and Silverfish Are Rocking Some Old-School Looks | Deep Look
199 views / 1 likes - addedWhat *is* that bizarre fishlike thing squirming in your sink at night? Firebrats and silverfish are pretty darn similar to some of the earliest insects on Earth. With three long filaments poking out their back, no wings and mini-me babies, they have somet
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These Acrobatic Beach Hoppers Shred All Night Long | Deep Look
222 views / 0 likes - addedAs the sun sets, hordes of tiny crustaceans called beach hoppers also known as sand hoppers emerge from underground burrows to frolic and feast. They eat so much decaying seaweed and other beach wrack that by morning all thats left are ghostly outlines in
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These Feisty Hermit Crabs Brawl Over Snail Shells | Deep Look
249 views / 2 likes - addedHermit crabs are *obsessed* with snail shells. These crafty little crabs, found in California's rocky intertidal zone, are more than happy to let the snails build them a perfect home. When the crabs find a snail shell they like, they hop right into their
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Scorpions Are Predators With a Sensitive Side | Deep Look
267 views / 0 likes - addedLook past their grasping claws and lightning-fast stingers, and you'll see scorpions have a delicate pair of comb-like organs on their belly called pectines. These sensory body parts help them navigate, and figure out who's a menace, a meal or a mate.Plea
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Leaf Miner Fly Babies Scribble All Over Your Salad | Deep Look
293 views / 0 likes - addedThis flys larvae tunnel inside bitter-tasting greens like arugula and kale, leaving squiggly marks behind. The plants fight back with toxic chemicals. So before laying her eggs, the fly mom digs into a leaf and slurps its sap a taste test to find the leas
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The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Mini-Monster That Defies Aging | Deep Look
277 views / 0 likes - addedCould this tiny creature, named after a mythical multiheaded monster, hold the secret to eternal youth? Related to jellyfish and anemones, the hydra has an almost otherworldly ability to heal itself and stave off aging.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.g
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Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? | Deep Look
384 views / 0 likes - addedTo find its place in the shade! Each hollowed-out seed is home to a head-banging moth larva, just trying to survive the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dee
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These Mites Rain Down To Save Your Strawberries | Deep Look
263 views / 0 likes - addedTwo tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices out of the delicious crop and destroys it. The other, persimilis, is a crafty predator that growers drop by the thousands from high-tech dron
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Born Pregnant: Aphids Invade with an Onslaught of Clones | Deep Look
359 views / 0 likes - addedFemale aphids are the matriarchs of a successful family operation taking over your garden. But dont lose hope; these pests have some serious predators and creepy parasites looking to take them down. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease join
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These Silk-Swinging Caterpillars Will Ruin Your Picnic | Deep Look
217 views / 0 likes - addedCalifornia oak moth caterpillars eat all the leaves on an oak, leaving a brown skeleton. Then they rappel down on a strand of silk, twirling and swinging. If you were enjoying the shade, good luck getting out of their way. For the oak, the caterpillars ar
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See Sea Slugs Scour Seagrass by the Seashore | Deep Look
294 views / 0 likes - addedEelgrass sea hares may look like lazy, zebra-striped spoonfuls of jello, but these sea slugs are actually environmental heroes. Their voracious appetite for algae helps keep underwater meadow ecosystems in balancewhich is great news for sea otters. Deep L
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Here's How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter | Deep Look
278 views / 0 likes - addedA 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 infuriating inse
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Watch These Peregrine Falcons Become Fierce Parents | Deep Look
346 views / 2 likes - addedHigh 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 with meat.
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What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck's Back? | Deep Look
308 views / 0 likes - addedDucks and geese spend *a lot* of time preening their all-weather feathers. This obsessive grooming and a little styling wax from a hidden spot on their back side maintains the microscopic feather structure that keeps them warm and dry in frigid waters.Ple
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Is a Spider's Web a Part of Its Mind? | Deep Look
366 views / 1 likes - addedOrb weaver spiders build exquisite spiral webs not only to catch insects, but to extend their senses. Once they shrink-wrap their prey with silk, the nearly blind spiders can store them for later, and read their web's strands as a kind of memory map to gu
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Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet | Deep Look
468 views / 1 likes - addedThey 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. Watch the new PBS Terra science show, OVERVIE
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This is NOT a Dandelion. | Deep Look
262 views / 0 likes - addedNot every yellow bloom or fluffy white globe taking over your backyard is a dandelion. Some of them are close relatives called catsears. But both of them have a little secret. To tell them apart and discover why they’re so successful you need to pee
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This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House | Deep Look
263 views / 0 likes - addedThe Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit dengue fever and Zika, makes a meal of us around our homes. And her eggs are hardy. They can dry out, but remain alive for months, waiting for a little water so they can hatch into squiggly larvae.Please join
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Decorator Crabs Make High Fashion at Low Tide | Deep Look
318 views / 0 likes - addedWhen you live by the seashore, one day you're in, the next day you're lunch. So these crabs don the latest in seaweed outerwear and anemone accessories to blend in.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtDEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series
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A Baby Dragonfly's Mouth Will Give You Nightmares | Deep Look
335 views / 0 likes - addedDragonflies might rule the skies, but their babies grow up underwater in a larva-eat-larva world. Luckily for them, they have a killer lip that snatches prey, Alien-style, at lightning speed.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtDEEP LOOK: a new ult
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These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science | Deep Look
306 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to The Great Courses Plus for sponsoring this episode of Deep Look. Try a 30 day trial of The Great Course Plus at http://ow.ly/7QYH309wSOL. If you liked this episode, you might be interested in their course Major Transitions in Evolution. POW! BAM
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California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride | Deep Look
305 views / 0 likes - addedThe California floater mussel does a surprising amount of travel - for a bivalve. First it gets ejected from its parent's shell into the wide watery wilderness. Then it leads a nomad's life clamped on the fins or gills of a fish. Once it's all grown up, t
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How The Coronavirus Attacks Your Lungs | Deep Look
329 views / 0 likes - addedThe new coronavirus packs a devastating punch. It penetrates deep into your lungs, causing our immune cells to go haywire and damage tiny air sacs the alveoli where oxygen normally flows into our blood.More COVID-19 Reporting and resources from KQED Scien
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Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear | Deep Look
746 views / 1 likes - addedEver wanted to be invisible? The elusive glasswing butterfly knows just how to do it. Its transparent wings, covered in an anti-glare nano-coating, help it hide from its predators in the rainforest. Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreo
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Cape Sundews Trap Bugs In A Sticky Situation | Deep Look
375 views / 0 likes - addedCape sundews are carnivorous plants that grow in bogs, where they don't have access to many nutrients. So they exude sweet, shimmering droplets from their tentacles to lure in unsuspecting insects. Once their prey is hopelessly stuck, they wrap it up and
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Walking Sticks Stop, Drop and Clone to Survive | Deep Look
347 views / 0 likes - addedIndian walking sticks are more than just twig impersonators. They even clone themselves into a surprising variety of colors to stay hidden in plain sight from predators.Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplookSUBSCRIBE to Dee
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A Flea's Fantastic Jump Takes More Than Muscle | Deep Look
382 views / 0 likes - addedBefore they can bite your cat or dog, these little "itch hikers" make an amazing leap 100 times faster than the blink of an eye. So how do they do it? Follow Lauren Sommer in her new job at NPR: https://www.npr.org/people/803934365/lauren-sommerPlease joi
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Kangaroo Rats Are Furry, Spring-Loaded Ninjas | Deep Look
559 views / 2 likes - addedKangaroo rats use their exceptional hearing and powerful hind legs to jump clear of rattlesnakes or even deliver a stunning kick in the face.Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplookSUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt
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A Tsetse Fly Births One Enormous Milk-Fed Baby | Deep Look
363 views / 0 likes - addedMammalian moms, you're not alone! A female tsetse fly pushes out a single squiggly larva almost as big as herself, which she nourished with her own milk.Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplookSUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://g
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You Wish You Had Mites Like This Hissing Cockroach | Deep Look
338 views / 0 likes - addedNot all roaches are filthy. The Madagascar hissing cockroach actually makes a pretty sweet pet, thanks to the hungry mites that serve as its cleaning crew.Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTcSUBSCRIBE to D
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Why Crickets Just Won't Shut Up | Deep Look
359 views / 0 likes - addedMale crickets play tunes non-stop to woo a mate or keep enemies away. But they're not playing their song with the body part you're thinking. Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplookSUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt
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The Curious Webspinner Insect Knits a Cozy Home | Deep Look
480 views / 0 likes - addedTo protect herself and her eggs, female webspinners shoot super-fine silk from their front feet. They weave the strands to build a shelter that serves as a tent, umbrella and invisibility cloak. But shooting silk from her feet requires her to moonwalk to
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Kidnapper Ants Steal Other Ants' Babies - And Brainwash Them | Deep Look
599 views / 1 likes - addedKidnapper ants raid other ant species' colonies, abduct their young and take them back to their nest. When the enslaved babies grow up, the kidnappers trick them into serving their captors hunting, cleaning the nest, even chewing up their food for them.Pl
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This Bee Gets Punched by Flowers For Your Ice Cream | Deep Look
626 views / 0 likes - addedAlfalfa leafcutting bees are way better at pollinating alfalfa flowers than honeybees. They dont mind getting thwacked in the face by the spring-loaded blooms. And that's good, because hungry cows depend on their hard work to make milk.Join our community
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This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies | Deep Look
548 views / 2 likes - addedSomething is growing inside that fruit fly in your kitchen. At dusk, the fly points its wings straight up and dies in a gruesome pose so that a fungus can ooze out and fire hundreds of reproductive spores.Join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon
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These Giant Leaf Insects Will Sway Your Heart | Deep Look
444 views / 1 likes - addedGiant Malaysian leaf insects stay still – very still – on their host plants to avoid hungry predators. But as they grow up, they can't get lazy with their camouflage. They change – and even dance – to blend in with the ever-shiftin
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Peregrine Falcons are Feathered Fighter Jets, Basically | Deep Look
541 views / 1 likes - addedPeregrine falcons catch other birds mid-flight by diving at more than 200 mph. To do it, they need some high-precision gear: special eyesight, talons and aerodynamics that can't be beat.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease support us on Patr
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Why the Male Black Widow is a Real Home Wrecker | Deep Look
566 views / 6 likes - addedSure, the female black widow has a terrible reputation. But whos the real victim here? Her male counterpart is a total jerk and might just be getting what he deserves. Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/deeplook SUBSCRIBE to De
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A Real Alien Invasion Is Coming to a Palm Tree Near You | Deep Look
447 views / 0 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook The South American palm weevil is bursting onto the scene in California. Its arrival could put one of the states most cherished botanical icons at risk of oblivion. DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4
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Look Inside a Rattlesnake's Rattle | Deep Look
648 views / 4 likes - addedCheck out America From Scratch: https://youtu.be/LVuEJ15J19sA rattlesnake's rattle isn't like a maraca, with little bits shaking around inside. So how exactly does it make that sound?SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease support us on Patreon
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Watch Bed Bugs Get Stopped in Their Tracks | Deep Look
452 views / 1 likes - addedAt night, these parasites crawl onto your bed, bite you and suck your blood. Then they find a nearby hideout where they leave disgusting telltale signs. But these pests have an Achilles heel that stops them cold.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXq
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Meeting a Wormlion Is the Pits | Deep Look
357 views / 0 likes - addedStraight out of science fiction, the fearsome wormlion ambushes prey at the bottom of a tidy - and terrifying - sand pit, then flicks their carcasses out. These meals fuel its transformation into something unexpected.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/
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These Face Mites Really Grow on You | Deep Look
506 views / 0 likes - addedYep, you probably have Demodex mites living on your face. These tiny arachnids feast on sebum, the greasy oil in your pores. But should you be worried about your eight-legged guests?SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease support us on Patreon!
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Honey Bees Make Honey ... and Bread? | Deep Look
853 views / 1 likes - addedHoney bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight – and our sweet tooth. But they also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread. JOIN our Deep Look community on Patreo
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Porcupines Give You 30,000 Reasons to Back Off | Deep Look
859 views / 5 likes - addedPorcupines may be adorable, but their quills are razor-sharp, designed to impale and next to impossible to remove. But it's not all bad news. Researchers are designing new surgical staples that mimic the quill's shape to better close wounds and promote he
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This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Relationship | Deep Look
555 views / 0 likes - addedThis millipede uses deadly cyanide gas to keep predators at bay. But one beetle can tolerate the toxic defense and rides the millipede like a bucking bronco. Who will win this showdown in the forest? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please sup
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So ... Sometimes Fireflies Eat Other Fireflies | Deep Look
499 views / 0 likes - addedMost firefly flashes are pure romance, a sexy form of skywriting. But one variety copies the mating signals of others to lure them to their demise. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by K
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Praying Mantis Love is Waaay Weirder Than You Think | Deep Look
670 views / 2 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook These pocket-sized predators are formidable hunters. But when it comes to hooking up, male mantises have good reason to fear commitment. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK
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How Lice Turn Your Hair Into Their Jungle Gym | Deep Look
628 views / 0 likes - addedWhy are itchy lice so tough to get rid of and how do they spread like wildfire? They have huge claws that hook on hair perfectly, as they crawl quickly from head to head. JOIN our Deep Look community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook SUBSCRIBE
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Whack! Jab! Crack! It's a Blackback Land Crab Smackdown | Deep Look
402 views / 0 likes - addedIt's an all-out brawl for prime beach real estate! These Caribbean crabs will tear each other limb from limb to get the best burrow. Luckily, they molt and regrow lost legs in a matter of weeks, and live to fight another day. You can learn more about Curi
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Samurai Wasps Say 'Smell Ya Later, Stink Bugs' | Deep Look
659 views / 0 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Yep, brown marmorated stink bugs are stinky, but that’s not the worst thing about them. They're imported agricultural pests eating their way across North America. But a native enemy from Asia
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Jerusalem Crickets Only Date Drummers | Deep Look
525 views / 1 likes - addedWith their big heads and beady black eyes, Jerusalem crickets aren't winning any beauty contests. But that doesn't stop them from finding mates. They use their bulbous bellies to serenade each other with some furious drumming. Support Deep Look on Patreon
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Daddy Longlegs Risk Life ... and Especially Limb ... to Survive | Deep Look
507 views / 0 likes - addedWhen predators attack, daddy longlegs deliberately release their limbs to escape. They can drop up to three and still get by just fine. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Fran
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This Is Why Water Striders Make Terrible Lifeguards | Deep Look
461 views / 1 likes - addedThey may look serene as they glide across the surface of a stream, but don't be fooled by water striders. They're actually searching for prey for whom a babbling brook quickly becomes an inescapable death trap. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt
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Want a Whole New Body? Ask This Flatworm How | Deep Look
546 views / 0 likes - addedPlanarians are tiny googly-eyed flatworms with an uncanny ability: They can regrow their entire bodies, even a new head. So how do they do it? You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/deeplook Support Deep Look on Patreon!!
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These Hairworms Eat a Cricket Alive and Control Its Mind | Deep Look
512 views / 0 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook A baby hairworm hitches a ride inside a cricket, feasting on its fat until the coiled-up parasite is ready to burst out. Then it hijacks the cricket's mind and compels it to head to water for
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How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much | Deep Look
602 views / 1 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Dogs have a famously great sense of smell, but what makes their noses so much more powerful than ours? They're packing some sophisticated equipment inside that squishy schnozz. SUBSCRIBE to De
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Turret Spiders Launch Sneak Attacks From Tiny Towers | Deep Look
577 views / 0 likes - addedThere are strange little towers on the forest floor. Neat, right? Nope. Inside hides a spider that's cunning, patient and ruthless. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please follow us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook DEEP LOOK is a u
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862 views / 0 likes - addedTheir skeletons are prized by beachcombers, but sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Covered in thousands of purple spines, they have a bizarre diet that helps them exploit the turbulent waters of the sandy sea floor. Please f
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The House Centipede is Fast, Furious, and Just So Extra | Deep Look
649 views / 2 likes - addedPlease follow us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Take the PBSDS survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey CORRECTION, 9/26/2018: This episode of Deep Look contains an error in the scientific name of the house centipede. It is Scutigera coleoptr
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How Kittens Go From Clueless to Cute | Deep look
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Watch These Cunning Snails Stab and Swallow Fish Whole | Deep Look
557 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Cone Snails have an arsenal of tools and weapons under their pretty shells. These reef-dwelling hunters nab their prey in microseconds, then slowly eat them alive. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! htt
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This Adorable Sea Slug is a Sneaky Little Thief | Deep Look
631 views / 1 likes - addedTake the PBSDS survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey Explore our VR slug and support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Nudibranchs may look cute, squishy and defenseless ... but watch out. These brightly-colored sea slugs aren't above stea
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Watch This Bee Build Her Bee-jeweled Nest | Deep Look
654 views / 0 likes - addedTake the PBSDS survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey Please support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Pollinator. Mason. Jeweler. A female blue orchard bee is a multitasking master. She fashions exquisite nests out of mud and pollen that r
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How Ticks Dig In With a Mouth Full of Hooks | Deep Look
608 views / 1 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Why can't you just flick a tick? Because it attaches to you with a mouth covered in hooks, while it fattens up on your blood. For days. But don't worry – there *is* a way to pull it out. SUBS
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How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet | Deep Look
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What Do Earwigs Do With Those Pincers Anyway? | Deep Look
589 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Earwigs are equipped with some pretty imposing pincers on their rear, and they're not afraid to use them. But when it comes to these appendages, size isn't everything. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look!
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You'd Never Guess What an Acorn Woodpecker Eats | Deep Look
668 views / 0 likes - addedOK. Maybe you would. But the lengths they have to go to to stock up for the winter *will* surprise you. When you see how carefully they arrange each acorn, you might just need to reorganize your pantry. Join Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.c
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You've Heard of a Murder of Crows. How About a Crow Funeral? | Deep Look
551 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook They may be dressed in black, but crow funerals aren't the solemn events that we hold for our dead. These birds cause a ruckus around their fallen friend. Are they just scared, or is there so
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For Pacific Mole Crabs It's Dig or Die | Deep Look
593 views / 0 likes - addedPacific mole crabs, also known as sand crabs, make their living just under the surface of the sand, where they're safe from breaking waves and hungry birds. Some very special physics help them dig with astonishing speed. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo
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Why Do Tumbleweeds Tumble? | Deep Look
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Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry? | Deep Look
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This Giant Plant Looks Like Raw Meat and Smells Like Dead Rat | Deep Look
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It’s a Goopy Mess When Pines and Beetles Duke it Out | Deep Look
556 views / 0 likes - addedAn onslaught of tiny western pine beetles can bring down a mighty ponderosa pine. But the forest fights back by waging a sticky attack of its own. Who will win the battle in the bark? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4
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These Whispering, Walking Bats Are Onto Something | Deep Look
644 views / 3 likes - addedBats have a brilliant way to find prey in the dark: echolocation. But to many of the moths they eat, that natural sonar is as loud as a jet engine. So some bats have hit on a sneakier, scrappier way to hunt. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DE
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How Do Pelicans Survive Their Death-Defying Dives? | Deep Look
660 views / 0 likes - addedBrown pelicans hit the water at breakneck speed when they catch fish. Performing such dangerous plunges requires technique, equipment, and 30 million years of practice. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video
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There's Something Very Fishy About These Trees ... | Deep Look
726 views / 1 likes - addedSalmon make a perilous voyage upstream past hungry eagles and bears to mate in forest creeks. When the salmon die, a new journey begins – with maggots. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series crea
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Identical Snowflakes? Scientist Ruins Winter For Everyone. | Deep Look
680 views / 0 likes - addedWe've all heard that each and every snowflake is unique. But in a lab in sunny southern California, a physicist has learned to control the way snowflakes grow. Can he really make twins? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD
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Why Does Your Cat's Tongue Feel Like Sandpaper? | Deep Look
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Roly Polies Came From the Sea to Conquer the Earth | Deep Look
708 views / 1 likes - addedPill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ult
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If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus | Deep Look
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Archerfish Says..."I Spit in Your Face!" | Deep Look
744 views / 1 likes - addedThe archerfish hunts by spitting water at terrestrial targets with weapon-like precision, and can even tell human faces apart. Is this fish smarter than it looks? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series
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Watch Flesh-Eating Beetles Strip Bodies to the Bone | Deep Look
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These 'Resurrection Plants' Spring Back to Life in Seconds | Deep Look
680 views / 0 likes - addedRain falls and within seconds dried-up moss that's been virtually dead for decades unfurls in an explosion of green. The microscopic creatures living in the moss come out to feed. Scientists say the genes in these “resurrection plants” might one day prote
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What Happens When You Zap Coral With The World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser? | Deep Look
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Can A Thousand Tiny Swarming Robots Outsmart Nature? | Deep Look
606 views / 1 likes - addedHow does a group of animals -- or cells, for that matter -- work together when no one’s in charge? Tiny swarming robots--called Kilobots--work together to tackle tasks in the lab, but what can they teach us about the natural world? ↓ More info, videos, an
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How Do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey? | Deep Look
646 views / 3 likes - addedWhen it comes to spotting prey, sharks and rays have a secret sense beyond sight and smell. Tiny goo-filled organs called Ampullae of Lorenzini detect the invisible electric fields produced by all living creatures. DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short vid
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Nature's Mood Rings: How Chameleons Really Change Color | Deep Look
821 views / 5 likes - addedChameleons don't change color to match their environment; it’s just the opposite. How do they do it? By manipulating tiny crystals in their skin. Now, UC Berkeley researchers are on a quest to create synthetic chameleon skin inspired by these reptiles’ un
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You're Not Hallucinating. That's Just Squid Skin. | Deep Look
632 views / 1 likes - addedOctopuses and cuttlefish are masters of underwater camouflage, blending in seamlessly against a rock or coral. But squid have to hide in the open ocean, mimicking the subtle interplay of light, water, and waves. How do they do it? DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-H
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The Amazing Life of Sand | Deep Look
604 views / 1 likes - addedThere's a story in every grain of sand: tales of life and death, fire and water. If you scooped up a handful of sand from every beach, you'd have a history of the world sifting through your fingers. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK:
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Why Jellyfish Float Like a Butterfly—And Sting Like a Bee | Deep Look
649 views / 1 likes - addedJellyfish don’t have a heart, or blood, or even a brain. They’ve survived five mass extinctions. And you can find them in every ocean, from pole to pole. What’s their secret? Keeping it simple, but with a few dangerous tricks. DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4
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Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves? | Deep Look
775 views / 1 likes - addedAnts don’t eat leaves. They use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus tycoons, complete with their own underground cities and huge half-inch soldiers to patrol
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TRAILER - Welcome to Deep Look | PBS Digital Studios | KQED
605 views / 0 likes - addedDEEP LOOK - see the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Twice a month, get a new perspective on our place in the universe and meet extraordinary new friends. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K
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What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel? | Deep Look
1,085 views / 3 likes - addedScientists have used a high-speed camera to film hummingbirds' aerial acrobatics at 1000 frames per second. They can see, frame by frame, how neither wind nor rain stop these tiniest of birds from fueling up. DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video ser
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Pygmy Seahorses: Masters of Camouflage | Deep Look
646 views / 1 likes - addedTiny and delicate, pygmy seahorses survive by attaching to vibrant corals where they become nearly invisible to both predators and researchers. Now, biologists at the California Academy of Sciences have successfully bred them in captivity for the first ti
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What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look
667 views / 0 likes - addedPlenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. And each miniature mansion the trees build for the wasps' larvae is weirder and more flamboyant than the next. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http:
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The Hidden Perils of Permafrost | Deep Look
678 views / 0 likes - addedFor thousands of years, mysterious bacteria have remained dormant in the Arctic permafrost. Now, a warming climate threatens to bring them back to life. What does that mean for the rest of us? SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Funding for Deep Look is provi
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What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue? | Deep Look
931 views / 5 likes - addedWhat does it mean to be blue? The wings of a Morpho butterfly are some of the most brilliant structures in nature, and yet they contain no blue pigment -- they harness the physics of light at the nanoscale. Learn more about these butterflies: http://goo.g
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The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters | Deep Look
1,467 views / 8 likes - addedHappy #WorldOtterDay ! Sea otters aren't just cute -- they're a vivid example of life on the edge. Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their sur
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How Electric Light Changed the Night | Deep Look
848 views / 1 likes - addedArtificial light makes the modern world possible. But not all kinds of light are good for us. Electric light has fundamentally altered our lives, our bodies and the very nature of our sleep. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Funding for Deep Look is provide
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In the Race for Life, Which Human Embryos Make It? | Deep Look
1,035 views / 0 likes - addedEvery one of us started out as an embryo, but only a few early embryos – about one in three – grow into a baby. Researchers are unlocking the mysteries of our embryonic clock and helping patients who are struggling to get pregnant. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.g
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Banana Slugs: Secret of the Slime | Deep Look
587 views / 0 likes - addedBeneath the towering redwoods lives one of the most peculiar creatures in California: the banana slug. They're coated with a liquid crystal ooze that solves many problems slugs face in the forest -- and maybe some of our own. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwX
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From Drifter to Dynamo: The Story of Plankton | Deep Look
533 views / 1 likes - addedMost plankton are tiny drifters, wandering in a vast ocean. But where wind and currents converge they become part of a grander story… an explosion of vitality that affects all life on Earth, including our own. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Funding for D
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What Makes Owls So Quiet and So Deadly? | Deep Look
907 views / 7 likes - addedIt's stealth, not speed that makes owls such exceptional hunters. Zoom way in on their phenomenal feathers to see what makes them whisper-quiet. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED
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Nature's Scuba Divers: How Beetles Breathe Underwater | Deep Look
713 views / 1 likes - addedBugs and beetles can’t hold their breath underwater like we do. But some aquatic insects can spend their whole adult lives underwater. How do they do it? Meet nature’s Scuba divers. They carry their air with them—in some cases, for a lifetime. SUBSCRIBE t
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The Ladybug Love-In: A Valentine's Special | Deep Look
713 views / 3 likes - addedLadybugs spend most of their lives alone, gorging themselves on aphids. But every winter they take to the wind, soaring over cities and fields to assemble for a ladybug bash. In these huge gatherings, they'll do more than hibernate-it's their best chance
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Sticky. Stretchy. Waterproof. The Amazing Underwater Tape of the Caddisfly | Deep Look
670 views / 0 likes - addedWhat do you do if you are a tiny caddisfly larva growing up in a torrent of water and debris? Simple. You build a shelter out of carefully selected pebbles and some homespun waterproof tape. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultr
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Behind the Scenes with Deep Look: Caddisflies
525 views / 0 likes - addedHow do we capture such amazing nature footage? Check out the making of "Sticky. Stretchy. Waterproof. The Amazing Underwater Tape of the Caddisfly." Watch producer Elliott Kennerson and cinematographer Josh Cassidy in action with UC Berkeley caddisfly exp
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Sea Urchins Pull Themselves Inside Out to be Reborn | Deep Look
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Can the Frog Apocalypse be Stopped by a New "Vaccine" ? | Deep Look
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Watch These Frustrated Squirrels Go Nuts! | Deep Look
597 views / 2 likes - addedHumans aren’t the only creatures that get frustrated. Squirrels do too. One researcher wants to know, could there be an evolutionary benefit to losing your cool? SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series
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These Termites Turn Your House into a Palace of Poop | Deep Look
818 views / 0 likes - addedTermites cause billions of dollars in damage annually – but they need help to do it. So they carry tiny organisms around with them in their gut. Together, termites and microorganisms can turn the wood in your house into a palace of poop. SUBSCRIBE to Deep
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The Double-Crossing Ants to Whom Friendship Means Nothing | Deep Look
641 views / 0 likes - addedThe Peruvian Amazon is a dangerous place when you're small. So the young Inga tree hires ants as bodyguards to protect its vulnerable leaves. Their pay: delicious nectar served up in tiny ant-sized dishes. But will the ants keep up their end of the bargai
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Why Reindeer and Their Cousins are Total Boneheads | Deep Look
545 views / 1 likes - addedWhat if you had to grow 20 pounds of bone on your forehead each year just to find a mate? In a bloody, itchy process, males of the deer family grow a new set of antlers every year, use them to fend off the competition, and lose their impressive crowns whe
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For These Tiny Spiders, It's Sing or Get Served | Deep Look
690 views / 0 likes - addedMale jumping spiders perform courtship dances that would make Bob Fosse proud. But if they bomb, they can wind up somebody's dinner instead of their mate. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short video series created
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This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower's Hidden Treasure | Deep Look
761 views / 1 likes - addedMost flowering plants are more than willing to spread their pollen around. But some flowers hold out for just the right partner. Bumblebees and other buzz pollinators know just how to handle these stubborn flowers. They vibrate the blooms, shaking them un
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These Carnivorous Worms Catch Bugs by Mimicking the Night Sky | Deep Look
569 views / 0 likes - addedThe glow worm colonies of New Zealand's Waitomo Caves imitate stars to confuse flying insects, then trap them in sticky snares and eat them alive. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK is science up close - really, really close. An ultra-
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How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood | Deep Look
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These Crazy Cute Baby Turtles Want Their Lake Back | Deep Look
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This Mushroom Starts Killing You Before You Even Realize It | Deep Look
496 views / 0 likes - addedThe notorious death cap mushroom causes poisonings and deaths around the world. If you were to eat these unassuming greenish mushrooms by mistake, you wouldn’t know your liver is in trouble until several hours later. The death cap has been spreading acros
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857 views / 3 likes - addedThere's a chemical arms race going on in the Sonoran Desert between a highly venomous scorpion and a particularly ferocious mouse. The outcome of their battle may one day change the way doctors treat pain in people. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8
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The Bombardier Beetle And Its Crazy Chemical Cannon | Deep Look
690 views / 1 likes - addedWhen attacked, this beetle sets off a rapid chemical reaction inside its body, sending predators scrambling. This amazing chemical defense has some people scratching their heads: How could such a complex system evolve gradually—without killing the beetle
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Meet the Dust Mites, Tiny Roommates That Feast On Your Skin | Deep Look
777 views / 1 likes - addedYou may think that you've got the house to yourself, but chances are you have about 100 different types of animals living with you. Many of them are harmless, but a few can be dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect. New research explores exactly whom you s
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Welcome to Deep Look | PBS Digital Studios | KQED
662 views / 0 likes - addedDEEP LOOK - see the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Twice a month, get a new perspective on our place in the universe and meet extraordinary new friends. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K
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Winter is Coming For These Argentine Ant Invaders | Deep Look
585 views / 1 likes - addedArgentine ants are spreading across the globe, eliminating local ants with their take-no-prisoners tactics: invade, dismember, repeat. But this ruthless killer seems to have met its match in the winter ant, a California native with a formidable secret wea
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This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace (ft. It's Okay to Be Smart) | Deep Look
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These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years | Deep Look
811 views / 1 likes - addedMale side-blotched lizards have more than one way to get the girl. Orange males are bullies. Yellows are sneaks. Blues team up with a buddy to protect their territories. Who wins? It depends - on a genetic game of roshambo. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://
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The Snail-Smashing, Fish-Spearing, Eye-Popping Mantis Shrimp
797 views / 1 likes - addedThe killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized light, which could lead to a breakthrough in dete
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