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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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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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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 Extinction Happening Inside You
329 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobio
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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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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 Do Rivers Have Deltas?
677 views / 1 likes - addedWhere rivers meet the ocean, coastlines tend to bend either inward or outward, creating estuaries and deltas. But how do they get those shapes? A huge thank-you to the following organizations, all working toward sustainable deltas, for sponsoring this vid
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Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?
1,046 views / 5 likes - addedThanks to http://www.harrys.com for supporting this video. Use the coupon code MINUTEEARTH for $5 off your order! http://www.harrys.com Thanks to our Patreon patrons: - @AntoineCoeur - Nicholas Buckendorf - Nasser Hamed Alminji - Jeff Straathof - Mark - f
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How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly
924 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to http://www.givewell.org/ for sponsoring this video! To learn more about the Against Malaria Foundation, visit: http://www.givewell.org/AMF or https://www.againstmalaria.com. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth __
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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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Causing An Avalanche To Explain How They Work
39 views / 0 likes - addedAvalanches are beautiful, majestic, and completely terrifying this is a video all about the science of avalanches. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and get 20% off an annual premium subscription.A massive thank you
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How Big Is The Universe?
172 views / 0 likes - addedIs the Universe infinite? Or does it somehow fold in on itself? And if so in what shape? Join us today as explore the size of the Universe. Written and presented by Prof David Kipping, with special thanks to cosmologist Prof Colin Hill for fact checking.
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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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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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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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Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
10 views / 0 likes - addedThis Product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASAs Science Activation portfolio.The material contained in this document is based upon work supported by a National Aeronautics And Space Administration (N
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?
250 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to OIST for sponsoring this video. To learn more, visit https://admissions.oist.jp/Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down.Thanks also to our Pa
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The US Military Gave Out Shark Repellent For Years. . . So Why Did They Stop?
456 views / 0 likes - addedDownload the PBS Video App: https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for decades--the military even issued a chemical shark repellent called Shark Chaser to pilots, sailors, and astronauts(!) from th
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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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The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
130 views / 0 likes - addedOne of the most important, yet least understood, concepts in all of physics. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If you're looking for a molecular mo
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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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Will Robots Make Us More Human?
994 views / 0 likes - addedTwitter: https://twitter.com/VsauceTwo Huge Thanks To British Pathé http://www.britishpathe.com/ *** Sources & Links *** BOOKS Working by Studs Terkel http://goo.gl/ZoAqnr Science And Technology In World History by James E. McClellan, Harold Dorn http://g
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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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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Birds
186 views / 0 likes - addedThis summer, we partnered with Nate Senner of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tebughna School in Beluga, Alaska to make this series of videos all about how, why, and where birds migrate. We had so much fun making these videos that we decided t
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The Fatal Physics of Falling Objects
156 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. Check out Adam Savage's video: https://youtu.be/h_zytOcMwysA massive thanks to A
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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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EXCLUSIVE SHORT: The Better-Than-Bunnies Magic Show! | SPIRIT RIDING FREE
916 views / 0 likes - addedWhen the PALs put on a magic show for their friends, they have a tough time pulling off their tricks. Until suddenly... magic really happens! Look for all new episodes of DreamWorks Spirit Riding Free on Netflix September 8! Directed By: Jim Schumann Stor
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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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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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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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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
136 views / 0 likes - addedPeople have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth? This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly
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What Does IQ Actually Measure?
224 views / 0 likes - addedIQ is supposed to measure intelligence, but does it? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms a
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How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
200 views / 0 likes - addedFor your chance to win two seats on one of the first commercial flights to space with Virgin Galactic all while supporting a great cause enter at https://omaze.com/minuteearth.While the rest of the worlds megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene
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Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
375 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.Thanks also to our Pat
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Five Crazy Bridges For Animals
930 views / 1 likes - addedWatch Frankenstein MD on PBS Digital! http://pbly.co/FMDep1 ________________________ Please support MinuteEarth on Patreon - https://patreon.com/minuteearth And subscribe! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 ______________________
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The Universe is Hostile to Computers
180 views / 0 likes - addedTiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.This vi
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What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
1,423 views / 6 likes - addedWhat is dark energy? What is dark matter? Well, if we knew exactly we would have a nobel prize – we know that they exist though. So what do we know about those strange things? Check out THE NOVA PROJECT to learn more about dark energy: www.nova.org.
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When Fish Wore Armor
516 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Hot Mess: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw 420 million years ago, some fish were more medieval. They wore armor, sometimes made of big plates, and sometimes made of interlocking scales. But that armor may actually have se
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