To help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, join us tomorrow evening for a virtual film festival! We'll screen four to five videos, and afterwards – you’ll have a chance to ask scientists and our producers questions about the amazing animals you just saw. Hope to see you there!
DEEP LOOK Earth Day Film Fest | Thu, April 23, 2020 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
The 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, the mussel goes to work filtering the water, keeping it clean for all the life that depends on it.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest ...
2020-04-17 15:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We have a new episode about California floater mussels opening up on your screens next week! Our series cinematographer and lead producer Josh Cassidy is seeing eye-to-eye with a three-spined stickleback fish. He and producer Mike Seely recreated one of their natural habitats – the bottom of freshwater lake – to film some scenes for this video. California floater mussels depend on these fish to help raise their...
2020-04-14 16:09:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Curled up on your couch watching a lot of videos? So are we! Josh Cassidy, our lead producer and cinematographer, has more suggestions for you: “Here's a playlist with some of my favorite uplifting Deep Look episodes for all you fans stuck at home right now. We've got more new episodes on the way. Enjoy and be safe!”
2020-04-09 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The 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.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with ot...
2020-04-03 16:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The Deep Look team loves getting fan mail – especially right now when we could all use some heartwarming news. While our show is for everyone, we've found that kids love our series, too. Five-year-old fan Ewan submitted this drawing after watching our episode about elk antlers, “While Reindeer and Their Cousins are Total Boneheads”. Ewan and his brother Oliver have been watching Deep Look as pa...
2020-04-02 18:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With over 15 million views, our episode, "How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood" is our most popular Deep Look video. And now our "parasite producer" Gabriela Quirós has a new episode premiering soon about this bloodthirsty insect.
During the shoot, Gabriela held a glass box so that University of California, Davis entomologist Chris Barker could blow an Aedes aegypti mosqui...
2020-03-31 18:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps!
We’ve heard from many of you that you want a Deep Look video on the coronavirus and COVID-19. Well, good news - we're in the process of researching a special episode on this very topic.
But first we want to know: What’s been missing from the current media coverage? What would you like to know more about? What COVID-19-related science, health and nature topics could we take a closer look at – really, really closely – for you?
Pleas...
2020-03-30 23:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you may be spending more time at home with your families these days due to COVID-19, and it’s certainly true for our Deep Look team, which has been working remotely these past few weeks.
For those of you with kids, we're sure it's been a challenge keeping them engaged and entertained in their new distance learning environment. While our show is for everyone, we've found that kids love Deep Look, too. So we asked several of our producers – who are also...
2020-03-27 18:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
We hope you’re staying healthy and safe during this challenging time of COVID-19. The Deep Look team is doing fine! 👍👍👍
Quick update: as you may recall, our amazing community of supporters on Patreon helped fund a special Deep Look filming expedition to Oaxaca, Mexico this spring. Unfortunately, we’ve had to postpone it due to COVID-19 travel re...
2020-03-26 17:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Indian 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.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, March 24 from YouTu...
2020-03-20 17:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Women's History Month! Deep Look has a diverse team of men and women that help produce every episode – including coordinating producer Gabriela Quirós and host Laura Klivans – but we'd also like to take a moment to celebrate some of the women scie...
2020-03-19 19:19:55 +0000 UTC View Post
While we film cool critters from all over the world, our budget doesn't always allow us to travel abroad. But sometimes we can find them right in our own backyard!
For our upcoming episode on Indian walking sticks, we just had to drive to the nearby campus of the University of California, Berkeley, to film them in their habitat. While originally from southern India, they've resettled here – most likely hitching a ride in shipping containers – and adapted to the cooler cl...
2020-03-17 17:12:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You may actually remember our new host, Laura Klivans, as she's actually collaborated with Deep Look in the past! (You can watch these episodes in this special playlist.)
We've bid a fond farewell to Lauren Sommer...
2020-03-11 17:53:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Before 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?
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode –– with our new host, Laura Klivans! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday,
We'll miss our beloved host, Lauren Sommer, who made her debut with Deep Look back in 2017 with our episode about octopus suckers. We asked her to reflect on her time with us and share some of her memories working with our team. We wish you all the best, Lauren!
(And find out who our new host is next week with our new episode about fleas –– o...
2020-03-05 18:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Kangaroo rats use their exceptional hearing and powerful hind legs to jump clear of rattlesnakes –– or even deliver a stunning kick in the face.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, February 25 from YouTube. Thank...
2020-02-21 17:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got an exciting new episode about Merriam's kangaroo rats hopping your way next week! We often have to resort to some creative techniques to film our videos – since we have tight budgets and short windows of opportunity to roll the camera.
Instead of using a "green screen" special effect technique to artificially place the kangaroo rat within its native habitat, our Deep Look cinemato...
2020-02-18 17:09:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Not 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.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, February 11 from YouTube.
While we don't have the resources to travel all the way to the island of Madagascar to film giant hissing cockroaches, we were fortunate that a healthy colony is located only a few hours' away from San Francisco.
For this upcoming episode, we visited the Sierra Research Laboratories, where a team of scientists conducts resear...
2020-02-04 16:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Mammalian 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.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, January 28th from YouTube.
Producer Gabriela Quirós waited for a tsetse fly to bite her so we could film the action for a Deep Look episode on these insects. Tsetse flies transmit sleeping sickness to humans and nagana to cattle in many African countries. This particular fly is one of the research subjects of medical entomologist Geoff Attardo, at the University of California, Davis. All his flies, which are reared...
2020-01-21 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Male crickets have a different song for every occasion: to advertise their fitness, woo a mate or keep their rivals away. So how do they make all those different chirps? One word: stridulation.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday,...
2020-01-10 20:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Male field crickets have a different song for every occasion: to advertise their fitness, woo a mate or keep their rivals away. So how do they make all these different chirps?
For his upcoming Deep Look episode, Josh Cassidy, our lead producer and cinematographer, spent an afternoon filming variable field crickets under a microscope at 2020-01-07 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps,
We’ll be celebrating the holidays for the rest of the month, but we’ll be back in January with new episodes, behind-the-scenes stories and more. See you in 2020!
–The Deep Look Team
2019-12-20 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our new producer, Mike Seely, has answered some of your questions about his career and Deep Look. We hope you enjoy learning more about Mike!
What's your favorite Deep Look video so far, and what do you think makes this channel so special/uniquely good?
It's tough to pick, but one of my favorites is still the very first Deep Look ep...
2019-12-18 00:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We’d like to announce that we have a new producer, Mike Seely, that’s just joined our team! He’s worked independently for more than 12 years as a director, producer and cinematographer on documentary films that have explored art, science and society.
After majoring in biology, Mike worked as a wildlife biologist for several years studying bird and seal populations in California. Then he headed back to school, ear...
2019-12-03 20:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep Look's lead producer and cinematographer, Josh Cassidy, and host and writer Lauren Sommer joined Science Friday's Ira Flatow for a special event this past weekend. They presented one of our most popular videos, "2019-11-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We just want to thank all of you again for being a part of our Patreon community! With your support, we'll be heading to Mexico next year–and we really, truly appreciate it. Please let us know how we're doing; we're always open to hearing your comments and ideas!
–The Deep Look Team
2019-11-19 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
To 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 get around.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it wit...
2019-11-15 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post