To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting recent videos we produced with the help of women scientists. Vote for your favorite!
And, here’s a special playlist of Deep Look videos that feature the research of women scientists.
2025-03-08 19:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Peeps! Ever heard of bird’s nest fungi? If you’re a mushroom forager, they’re not likely to be on your radar. We filmed these curious mushrooms two years ago. They’re not poisonous, but they’re small (two can fit on you...
2025-03-08 02:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that its mom laid inside a single grain of rice. Once it hatches, it turns your rice into its new home.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, March 11 from YouTube. Many Thanks!
2025-03-07 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Praying mantises, barnacles, newts and earthworms have some of the strangest love lives.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our special episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Friday, February 14 from YouTube. Thanks and Happy Valentines Day! 💕
2025-02-11 21:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We are releasing a special episode featuring four of our favorite tiny but deadly hunters. Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our special episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, January 28 from YouTube. Thanks!
2025-01-25 01:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home out of a blade of grass by weaving skeins of silk to close it shut. After growing up inside this “grass taco,” it emerges as a fuzzy butterfly that woos a mate with flirty courtship dances.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, January 7 from YouTube. Thanks!
2025-01-03 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps! We have exciting new videos coming your way starting Jan. 7. Until then, the #DeepLook team wishes you a very ✨happy new year✨ and leaves you with a poll and a playlist of the top five episodes we released in 2024. Watch the playlist here and vote for your favorite episode of 2024 belo...
2024-12-31 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDeep Look has had another unbeweevible year with over 56 million views on YouTube in 2024. One of our most popular episodes of 2024 is our acorn weevil video. Our designer Teodros Hailye, pictured above, talks about how he animated an acorn ...
2024-12-27 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps! Thank YOU for all your fantastic support throughout 2024! We're sending you warm holiday wishes and wishing you a very happy new year! We'll be back in January with all new videos. Until then...
We've put together a special winter playlist of videos from our archives so you can cozy up with friends and family to watch some glowing, dancing and other extraordinary wildlife behavior. We have videos in there about how pine trees reproduce, how reindeer grow their antlers ev...
2024-12-23 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Known as sand piranhas, Excirolana chiltoni are tiny crustaceans that nibble at your feet – and draw blood – if you hang out on the wet sand at the beach. They live on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada, and the shorelines of Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Here's how to keep them from ruining your vacay!
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, December 10 from YouTube. Thanks! 2024-12-07 02:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
These insects are popular with gardeners and growers. Plus, they have several unique behaviors. What fascinates you the most about them?
If you haven’t seen our video about green lacewings yet, watch here!
A male green lacewing walks across alfalfa leaves, revealing his delicate, translucent wings. Credit: Josh Ca...
Green lacewings have babies that are prized as pest control. But before they can mate, they have to vibrate their bodies, making noises like purring cats or growling stomachs.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode. You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, November 19 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-11-16 00:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs! Alfalfa leafcutting bees take a punch from a flower for your ice cream. Blue orchard bees bring you almonds and sweet cherries. Plus, stingless bees protect their tasty honey in creative ways. And bindweed bees’ way of gathering pollen deserves a fashion award.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode featuring five of our favorite bee vid...
2024-11-08 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey Deep Peeps! As you know it's our favorite holiday and we’ve got real bloodsuckers that know how to feast on human blood. What bloodsucking pest are you most horrified by? If you don’t see one of your top choices, let us know in the comments.
If you are still looking for a good Halloween movie to watch , then check out our special video compilation of our “favorite” bloodsucking creatures. They come with mouthparts right out of a horror movie. 2024-11-01 01:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
To bring all the bees to the yard! These pollinators love warm, bright blooms early in the morning. But how did these plants end up facing east? It turns out they spend their whole life getting in just the right position.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, October 22 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-10-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hoo! Hoo! Don’t miss Deep Look’s host Laura Klivans and lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy in conversation for a special screening at KQED headquarters in San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 19, at 1:45 p.m., as part of KQED FEST.
We’ll screen som...
2024-10-17 20:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps! We are participating in an event exploring the innovations that help protect our oceans. Join Deep Look Producer Rosa Tuirán in conversation with some of the world’s leading experts in ocean health and sustainability, including Julie Packard, executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium,&...
2024-10-13 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Chances are you’ve got one of these blood-suckers lurking nearby. Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies are all looking to grab a bite ... of you. See exactly how they do it and what you can do to stop them.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, October 8 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-10-05 22:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Deep Peeps! Deep Look now has a weekly newsletter called NATURE UNSEEN! Sign up here and go in-depth on an amazing animal, plant or fungus we’ve featured in one of our videos. Plus, there’s a fun intro from one of our producers and you can test your Deep Look knowledge...
2024-09-27 19:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Insects called burying beetles haul mouse carcasses down into the dirt and prep them to feed their future offspring. Also known as carrion beetles, they have some stiff competition … and some help from tiny traveling mites.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, Sept. 24 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-09-21 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 them in a wind tunnel to investigate their daring moves in slow motion.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, August 27 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-08-23 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Rosa Tuirán, who produced our recent episode about petroleum flies, and Josh Cassidy, our lead producer and cinematographer, share what it took to film down in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. See Rosa and Josh in action in the behind-the-scenes video above and photos below.
Rosa Talks About Filming Elusive Petroleum Flies
“Climbing down a construction ladder to reach Pit 91 at the La Brea Tar Pits was just the beginning of this adventure. Worki...
2024-08-13 21:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are still buzzing🐝 from hitting the radio waves earlier this week (Aug. 5) on Forum, KQED’s live call-in program, to talk all about Deep Look! From porcupine quills and oak galls, to ticks and slime mold, here’s a playlist of the episodes we discussed on the show.
Hey Deep Peeps! We are hitting the radio waves on KQED’s Forum program on Monday, Aug. 5 at 9am on 88.5FM to talk about how we make Deep Look! If you don’t live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can live stream the program from the link above or go to kqed.org/forum. &n...
2024-08-03 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, tiny petroleum flies and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt that oozes up to the surface. The larvae hunt among the fossilized bones of dire wolves, mammoths and saber-toothed cats.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, July 30 from YouTube. Thanks!
Thanks to your wonderful support we were able to film not one but TWO Deep Look episodes in Oaxaca state, Mexico in March. We hope you enjoyed our episodes about cochineal insects and the vibrant red dye they produce and our episode about stingless bees and the unusual tactics they employ to protect their honey and raise their ...
2024-07-20 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Deep Peeps! Six-rayed sea stars are way smaller than most starfish. Adults are the size of a bottle cap. What else surprises you about them? Dive into the hidden world of these starfish here: https://youtu.be/SSTfw1wuP9s
A juvenile six-rayed sea star looks like a snowflake. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
2024-07-13 16:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Six-rayed sea stars make great moms! Unlike most sea stars, mama six-rayed sea stars are VERY involved in their kids' lives, caressing and protecting their babies for months. When they're big enough, the youngsters venture out on their own to ruthlessly hunt down their tiny prey.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, July 9 from YouTube. Thanks!
Like the beloved butterfly, a house fly goes through an incredible metamorphosis. To make its grand entry into the world, it deploys a specialized, fluid-filled balloon on its head called the ptilinum (till-EYE-num) to break open its pupal casing, freeing itself to buzz around your kitchen.
We hope you enjoy this first look at our new episode! You can start sharing it with other science fans on Tuesday, June 18 from YouTube. Thanks!
2024-06-14 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey Deep Peeps! What’s your favorite Deep Look ocean animal survival tick? If you don’t see one you like, propose others from our ocean playlist.
Find out more about World Oceans Day 2024 and the importance of ocean conversation from the United Nations here.
2024-06-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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