Deep Look - TV Episode Calendar

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Behind the Scenes with Deep Look: Caddisflies
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Behind the Scenes With Deep Look: The Diva Decorator Crabs
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A Very Spine-Tingling Spider Screening with DEEP LOOK
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From Mites on Drones to Deadly Mushrooms – A Deep Look Screening and Q&A
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Behind the Scenes with Deep Look: Axolotls
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Minecraft vs. Real Life
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Recipe: Filming Horseshoe Crab Eggs
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Behind the Scenes with Deep Look: Damselflies
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KQED Live Presents Creepy Crawly Night with DEEP LOOK
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Behind the Scenes with Deep Look: Barnacle Sex
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Deep Look Livestream: Axolotls and Hummingbirds, Animals of Mexico
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Behind the Scenes: Filming a Silkworm Time-lapse
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Filming A Silkworm Spinning Its Cocoon in Macro | Behind the Scenes With Deep Look
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Cool Carnivorous Plants
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How Lice Turn Your Hair Into Their Jungle Gym
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Kids are back in school, so these parasites might come with them...

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Tarantula Mating Can Be Risky Business
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When male tarantulas reach maturity, right before they set out on their quest, they develop a special set of clasps on their front legs called “tibial hooks.” Tibial hooks serve a single .. show full overview

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Clearing up confusion about daddy longlegs
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This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Relationship
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Promecognathus crassus beetles are even able to withstand cyanide levels that would knock down beetles 10 times their size in lab tests.

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Magnificent Monarchs
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Arts + Crafts For Science
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We Love Monarchs
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Floating Fire Ant Rafts Grow Curious Little "Arms," Too
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Monarch Butterflies' Struggle to Survive
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Pallid Bats Have Super Sensitive Hearing
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Hungry Little Caterpillars
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Happy Halloween
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Camera Shy
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How to Film Yellowjackets
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Meet the Fly Destroyer
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These Bugs Were Safe For Work
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Milkweed Mansion
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Web Reduction for Seduction
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The Undying Hydra
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Super Slug Slime
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A Few Endearing Facts About Reindeer
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It's Snowflakes Season
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What’s This Critter?
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New Year, New Body, No Problem
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The Wonderful World of Webspinners
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Helpful Hitchhikers
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Spiders Watching Spiders
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Meet the Pill "Bugs"
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These Parasites Produce a Gruesome Spectacle
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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 a gruesome little swim.

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Ladybug Love-In
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Have you seen any ladybugs in your area? In these huge wintertime gatherings, they'll do more than hibernate - it's their best chance to find a mate.

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What's in the box?
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Here's how the director of photography for this episode, Kevin Collins, created the shot of earthworm cocoons that's featured at the end of our new Deep Look episode. He picked .. show full overview

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It's Snail Sex Time
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Can You Guess What This Is?
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So a Mussel Walked Into a Bar
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Twerking For Love ????
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What's Inside a Hagfish Slime Ball?
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We Love Biking to Work
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Our team recently filmed at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. This museum is close enough to our producer's home that she preferred pedaling some of our .. show full overview

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How to Film a Toad's Tongue
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You're Never Really Alone at Home
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For those who are less welcoming of these unexpected guests, you can ditch the wall-to-wall carpets, vacuum and mop often and reduce humidity, because dust mites are not usually found in .. show full overview

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Those Sexy Sharpshooter Insect Sounds
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Sharpshooters vibrate their abdominal muscles to call out to potential mates on grapevines.

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What's Inside a Sea Slug?
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In this behind the scenes video, watch how Deep Look's Teodros Hailye created this special animation that travels through the nudibranch’s complex digestive tract.

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Hint: They're Not Eggs
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Our DeepLook producer Gabriela Quirós has a new episode about bird's nest fungi!

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BEHIND THE SSSSCENES
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Our Deep Look producer Josh Cassidy is filming at the Tilden Nature Area Visitor Center in Berkeley, CA with naturalist Trent Pearce.

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Kidnapper Ants Aren't Kidding Around
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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.

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How a Mussel's Foot Comes to Life
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A Glasswing Butterfly is Born
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Named for their transparent wings, glasswing butterflies have evolved a clever disappearing act to avoid their many predators in the rainforests of South and Central America.

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Super Sticky Gecko
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I'll Get That Lunch to Geck-go
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Don't Underestimate an Archerfish's Smarts
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Walk Softly and Carry a Big Tick
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Our digital video designer Teodros Hailye doesn't just create animations for our videos. He also makes cool replicas of some of the critters that we feature in our episodes, like this .. show full overview

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So You See Why They're Called Springtails
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Springtails' explosive jumps can propel them as high as the equivalent of a six-story building for humans. Here's our lead producer Josh Cassidy and Gabriela Quirós, the producer of this episode, filming them in action for our NEW episode!

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#DeepLook Takes a Deep Dive
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Here's Josh Cassidy, our cinematographer and lead producer, on his quest to film the secret lives of sand dollars. He visited both land and sea to get a good look at them up close and .. show full overview

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This is a Snail That Fishes
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Our intern Sean Cummings, a science and environment journalist who just earned his master's degree in Science Communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz in June, took a .. show full overview

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They're Like Purple Sea Cookies
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Most people who pick them up don’t realize that they’ve collected the skeleton of an animal, washed up at the end of a long life. That skeleton -- also known as a test -- is really a .. show full overview

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Tide Pool Filming Tips
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If you ever find yourself wanting to film at a tide pool – we hope these tips come in handy!

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SPRINGTAILS VS. BEACH HOPPERS
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Bee-hind the Scenes with Deep Look
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Lights are Fireflies' Love Language
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Summertime = Mosquitoes Picnicking on Your Skin
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Meet Our New Deep Look Producer!
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Why, Oh Why, Is It So Hard to Swat a Fly?
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Your Questions Answered: Hagfish
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Candid Cockroaches
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Producer Mimi Schiffman and lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy hung out with cockroaches all day so you don't have to.

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Your Questions Answered: Bird's Nest Fungi
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Your Questions Answered: Mussels
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Do They Remind You of Dune?
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Ominous creatures that lurk deep underground in the desert, like the sandworms in the classic science fiction novel "Dune," aren’t just make-believe. For ants and other prey, wormlions are a terrifying reality.

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Ladybug Quiz
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Vinegaroons Foil Their Foes With Acid
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Vinegaroons' weaponized vinegar is 16 times stronger than what’s in your salad.

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Beekeeper Cosplay
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These Face Mites Really Grow On You
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Also called eyelash mites, they’re too small to see with the naked eye. They’re mostly transparent, and at about .3 millimeters long, it would take about five face adult mites laid end to end to stretch across the head of a pin.

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Hummingbirds are Hovering Masters
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These avian acrobats are the only birds that can fly sideways, backwards and hover for long stretches of time.

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Wrangling Acorn Weevils
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We've got a new Deep Look episode about acorn weevils, and producer Rosa Tuíran describes the behind the scenes action featuring Michael Jones, the UC Cooperative Extension Forest .. show full overview

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Leafcutter Ants are Fantastic Farmers
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While humans started farming about 12,000 years ago, ants have been doing it for 60 million years. Humans have plows and shovels, while leafcutters use their mandibles to cut through leaves with incredible speed, leaving telltale crescent shapes.

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We're Getting Ticked Off
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We're Making Tick Soup
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Yep, Honeybees Make Honey ... and Bread
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Honeybees 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.

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Scoot Yer Boots n' Snoots to Patreon
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We really hope you enjoy Deep Look as much as we love making it for you! But did you know that it takes 6-8 weeks to research, write, film, edit, compose and animate each episode? That's .. show full overview

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Awww, It's Baby Jellyfish
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We're behind the scenes at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, CA. Cinematographer and lead producer Josh Cassidy worked with marine biologist Mike McGill as he filmed moon jellyfish.

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Stink Bugs vs. Samurai Wasps
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The tiny samurai wasp has a particularly nasty method of stopping stink bugs in their tracks.

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The Bombardier Beetle Goes Boom
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Drain Flies Grow Up Down in Your Drain
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Blue Orchard Bees are Busy Little Builders
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Unlike honeybees, blue orchard bees don’t sting humans. And instead of building large colonies with thousands of worker bees caring for eggs laid by a queen bee, female blue orchard bees work alone to build their nests and stock them with food.

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Meet Seth Samuel, Our #DeepLook Composer (Pt. 2)
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Ever wonder how @sethgsamuel composes the original music for all of our episodes? Watch this Short as he gives a tour of some of the "instruments" he used for our "Meeting a Wormlion is the Pits" video.

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Meet Seth Samuel, Our #DeepLook Composer (Pt. 1)
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Ever wonder how @sethgsamuel composes the original music for all of our episodes? Watch this Short as he gives a tour of some of the "instruments" he used for our "Meeting a Wormlion is the Pits" video.

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Filming Corals at the calacademy
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We've got a NEW episode about how corals reproduce! Take a look behind the scenes to learn how we filmed our video with the help of the Coral Regeneration Lab at the calacademy.

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Meet Dr. Fun Guy
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The Fun World of Fungi
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Meet the Sharpshooter Research Team
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Producer Mimi Schiffman collaborated with UC Berkeley researcher Liz Clark and Georgia Tech researcher Elio Challita for our episode about sharpshooter pee.

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The Real Pokey-Mons
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The North American porcupine appears cute, but it has upward of 30,000 menacing quills over most of its body. The slow-moving herbivore delivers them only as a last-resort defense against predators.

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Planarians Really Know How to Get Ahead
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Q & A: Slime Molds
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For our slime molds episode, "This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace", our lead producer and cinematographer, Josh Cassidy, filmed Physarum slime molds in the lab of aerospace engineer .. show full overview

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Behind the Scenes: How We Animated An Acorn Weevil
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Our digital video designer Teodros Hailye reveals how he created the animated version of the adorable acorn weevil!

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Get This Unbeweevibly Cute Pint Glass on Patreon
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Meet Penelope the Porcupine!
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Meet Penelope the North American porcupine, the star of our episode, "Porcupines Give You 30,000 Reasons to Back Off".

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Please Subscribe to Our OnlyFerns
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Watch our NEW episode about fern sex now

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Meet Our Deep Look Intern
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Meet Andrew Saintsing, our current Deep Look intern! He's a science journalist and communicator who recently earned a PhD from the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of .. show full overview

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It's Time to Face The Facts About Face Mites
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Also called eyelash mites, they’re too small to see with the naked eye. They’re mostly transparent, and at about .3 millimeters long, it would take about five face adult mites laid end to end to stretch across the head of a pin.

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Cochineal Insects' Vibrant Red Is To Dye For
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Deep Look traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to film cochineal insects! We collaborated with Ana Lilia Vigueras, a researcher at the University of Guadalajara’s Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuaria.

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Meet Nature's Scuba Divers
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Did you know some species of aquatic insects have been breathing underwater for millions of years?

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No Stingers? No Problem. These Bees Bite!
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It's a Day at the Beach for These Digger Bees
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Can you bee-lieve how hard they work?

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These Glow Worms Have Real Star Quality
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The 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.

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Getting a Deeper Look at Geoff Attardo
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Stinging Beauties of the Sea
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Did you know that jellyfish don’t have a heart, or blood, or even a brain?

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Can You Guess What This Is?
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Axolotls Can Breathe Two Ways Underwater
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Axolotl questions about these salamanders, you'll get alotl answers from us.

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Bee-hind-the-Scenes in Oaxaca, Mexico
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Deep Look producer Gabriela Quirós filmed with the Perez family in Oaxaca, Mexico for her episode about stingless bees. Beekeeper Emilio Perez keeps four different species of stingless bees at his home to sell their honey.

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Down in the La Brea Tar Pits with #DeepLook
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#DeepLook producer Rosa Tuirán and cinematographer Josh Cassidy traveled to Los Angeles, California to the ‪@LaBreaTarPitsandMuseum‬ in Los Angeles, CA to film the petroleum fly. This .. show full overview

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Why Flies are Important to Forensics
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Dr. Martin Hall is a Scientific Associate the Natural History Museum in London, and his research about blow flies has been helpful to his work as forensic entomologist.

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What Tools Are Used at the La Brea Tar Pits?
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Meet the Zapotec Weavers Who Use Cochineal Dye
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In our Deep Look episode, "Meet the Bug You Didn't Know You Were Eating", producer Rosa Tuíran featured several members of the Gonzalez family. They're fifth-generation Zapotec weavers .. show full overview

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Cool Wasp Cribs
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These wasp houses are not homes exactly, but more akin to nurseries. The galls serve as an ideal environment for wasp larvae, whether it is a single offspring, or dozens.

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Super Snake Tongues
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Snakes have nostrils to smell, too — but their tongue is their secret weapon.

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How Ducks Stay Dry
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“Aquatic bird feathers are really different than those of other birds." --Jack Dumbacher, curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

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Captive Silkworms
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Humans have bred these insects into weaving machines that can no longer survive in the wild.

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Here's How Ducks Condition Their Feathers
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Ducks 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 .. show full overview

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Behind-the-Scenes with Burying Beetles
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University of California, Davis, doctoral student Tracie Hayes helped our #DeepLook team film burying beetles for our NEW episode!

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Watch Baby Mussels Launch Into Life
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Once it's all grown up, the baby mussel goes to work filtering the water, keeping it clean for all the life that depends on it.

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This Bug Has Its Own Switchblade
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Why is an assassin bug called an assassin bug? Likely because it impales its insect and arachnid victims with its pointy mouthparts.

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The Unkissable Kissing Bug
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Ladybug Larvae Have Ferocious Appetites
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Sometimes, the ladybug larva starts on one end of the aphid and eats it alive ...

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Behind-the-Scenes with Sunflowers
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Our lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of where he filmed his new Deep Look episode about sunflowers!

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Deep Look Turns 10!
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Thanks to all of you we’ve got over 2 million subscribers, 500 million views and almost 200 videos about the most amazing and also terrifying, shocking animals, plants and fungi! Many thanks to you, our deep peeps, for watching all these years!

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A Tricky Treat for Pesky Ants
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A tiny insect called the Asian citrus psyllid is threatening your oranges, lemons and limes. So to protect the valuable citrus industry, Mark Hoddle and his UC Riverside team are going after the psyllids’ ant bodyguards.

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Ducks Aren't Vain, They're Vaned
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A duck’s vaned feathers protects its down feathers that help keep them warm

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La Brea Tar Pits Quiz
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Flying Boots n' Snoots
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See Where Gliding Salamanders Call Home
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Researcher Christian Brown worked with our Deep Look team on our episode about gliding salamanders.

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A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Lacewing Love
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Feisty Skeleton Shrimp Fisticuffs
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These crustaceans use a funky assortment of body parts to move around like inchworms, feed on bits of sea garbage, stage boxing matches, and make lots of clingy babies.

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Pesky Boots n' Snoots
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If palm weevils infest a tree, it’s very hard to save it, since they live on the inside, where they escape both detection and pesticides.

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Why Did the Newt Cross the Road?
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Every winter, California newts leave the safety of their forest burrows and travel as far as three miles to mate in the pond where they were born.

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When It's Mating Time, Newt Males Get Buff
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Every winter, California newts leave the safety of their forest burrows and travel as far as three miles to mate in the pond where they were born.

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Filming Sand Piranhas!
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How does one film sand piranhas for a Deep Look episode? It helps to work with researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara! They helped us collect these tiny, hungry .. show full overview

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It's Time for a Reindeer Makeover
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What 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 .. show full overview

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Reactions to Cochineal Red Dye
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Dyes made from the cochineal insect have been used in textiles, paintings -- and even in your food! See some of our fellow KQED staff members trying -- and reacting to -- different foods that contain the dye.

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Mantis Shrimp Have Amazing Vision
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The 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 .. show full overview

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Flight Sets Ladybugs Free
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Ladybugs 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 .. show full overview

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Crowded Wasp Cribs
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These wasp houses are not homes exactly, but more akin to nurseries. The galls serve as an ideal environment for wasp larvae, whether it is a single offspring, or dozens.

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A Seahorse of a Different Color
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Tiny and delicate, pygmy seahorses survive by attaching to vibrant corals where they become nearly invisible to both predators and researchers.

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How the Pygmy Seahorse Got Its Color
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Tiny and delicate, pygmy seahorses survive by attaching to vibrant corals where they become nearly invisible to both predators and researchers.

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This Mantis Shrimp Has a Killer Punch
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The 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 .. show full overview

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Sand Piranhas are NOT Sand Fleas!
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Sneak Attack Spiders
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There are strange little towers on the forest floor. Neat, right? Nope. Inside hides a spider that's cunning, patient and ruthless.

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Cephalopod Survivors
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Octopuses 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 .. show full overview

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Real-Life Squid Games
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Octopuses 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 .. show full overview

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Mussels Making Friends
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Mussels create byssal threads, known as the mussel's "beard," to attach themselves both to rocks and to each other. They use their sensitive foot to mold the threads from scratch and apply a waterproof adhesive that makes superglue jealous.

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Wondrous Water Striders
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They 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.

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Leaping Lizards? Nope!
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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 .. show full overview

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No Parachutes Needed
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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 .. show full overview

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Love Bites Sometimes
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These pocket-sized predators are formidable hunters. But when it comes to hooking up, male mantises have good reason to fear commitment.

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Looking Good, Feline Good
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It's not vanity. For cats, staying clean is a matter of life and death. And their tongue, specially equipped for the job, is just one of the things that makes cats such successful predators.

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They Look Meowvelous
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It's not vanity. For cats, staying clean is a matter of life and death. And their tongue, specially equipped for the job, is just one of the things that makes cats such successful predators.

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Purr-fect Skills
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It's not vanity. For cats, staying clean is a matter of life and death. And their tongue, specially equipped for the job, is just one of the things that makes cats such successful predators.

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Move Over, Super Glue
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Mussels create byssal threads, known as the mussel's "beard," to attach themselves both to rocks and to each other. They use their sensitive foot to mold the threads from scratch and apply a waterproof adhesive that makes superglue jealous.

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Sometimes Size Does Matter
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Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.

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Buh-Bye, Bed Bugs
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We hope your spring cleaning doesn’t uncover bed bugs, dust mites, termites, drain flies or cockroaches

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Cunning Cockroaches
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We hope your spring cleaning doesn’t uncover bed bugs, dust mites, termites, drain flies or cockroaches.

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How Drain Flies Survive
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We hope your spring cleaning doesn’t uncover bed bugs, dust mites, termites, drain flies or cockroaches.

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Elephantastic Hearing
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African elephants may have magnificent ears, but on the savanna, they communicate over vast distances by picking up underground signals with their sensitive, fatty feet.

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Can You Be-leaf Your Eyes?
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Giant 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-shifting foliage.

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Jumping Spider Seduction
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Originally from North Carolina, Trinity Walls is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley who is studying mating behavior and hybridization in two species of .. show full overview

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Just Say No to Arachnophobia
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Originally from North Carolina, Trinity Walls is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley who is studying mating behavior and hybridization in two species of .. show full overview

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Who's That Spider in the Mirror?
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Originally from North Carolina, Trinity Walls is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley who is studying mating behavior and hybridization in two species of .. show full overview

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That's Not Rain
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Sharpshooters 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 .. show full overview

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Can Lasers Help With These Pests?
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Sharpshooter insects are beautiful, but they transmit a devastating disease that kills grapevines. When it's time to mate, they shake their abdomens to make strange calls that – when .. show full overview

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Meet Our New Deep Look Host!
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Meet Margaret Katcher, our new Deep Look host! We're thrilled to have her join our team.

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What Can We Learn From Spiders?
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Meet Maddy Hannappel, a postdoctoral fellow at the California Academy of Sciences. She's studying long-jawed orb weaver spiders, and she shares in this video what we can learn about our ecosystem from her research.

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Here's Why Pelicans are Diving Powerhouses
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Brown pelicans hit the water at breakneck speed when they catch fish. Performing such dangerous plunges requires technique, equipment, and 30 million years of practice.

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Farming Flatworms
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Tiny 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 .. show full overview

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Flatworm Hunters
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Tiny 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 .. show full overview

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We'll Miss You, Laura
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Our former Deep Look host, Laura Klivans, has bid farewell to us -- but she'll be continuing with her climate change reporting and other topics for KQED News. We'll miss her very much!

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Telltale Tails
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Humans 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?

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Nutty Squirrels
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Humans 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?