Candid Cockroaches | Deep Look #Shorts

From Deep Look. Producer Mimi Schiffman and lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy hung out with cockroaches all day so you don’t have to. 🪳🪳🪳 Watch our NEW episode about American cockroaches 👉 https://youtu.be/MMeh_G0iEfs #shorts #cockroach #shorts #deeplook #behindthescenes Music 🎶 Investigations by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Cockroach vs. Hydraulic Press: Who Wins? | Deep Look

From Deep Look. Do 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): They survived! How exactly do they do it? SUBSCRIBE to…

This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bee’s Nest | Deep Look

From Deep Look. A “bee fly” looks a bit like a bee, but it’s a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s 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 nests, the flies…

Tide Pool Filming Tips | #DeepLook #Shorts

From Deep Look. If you ever find yourself wanting to film at a tide pool – we hope these tips come in handy! 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 turn behind the…

They’re Like Purple Sea Cookies | #DeepLook #Shorts

From Deep Look. 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 tool, a remarkable feat of engineering that allows sand dollars to thrive on the shifting…

This is a Snail That Fishes 🎣 | #DeepLook #Shorts

From Deep Look. 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 turn behind the camera and filmed our lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy in Santa Cruz, California. The star of this #DeepLook episode…

#DeepLook Takes a Deep Dive | #Shorts

From Deep Look. 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 shares some of his production techniques along the way. Amanda Heidt, a former Deep Look summer media…

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Tick | #DeepLook #Shorts

From Deep Look. 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 giant Western blacklegged tick we display at events! It’s a 100 times larger than an actual tick and measures 12" long,…

Springtails Do Their Own Stunts | Deep Look

From Deep Look. Step right up to see tiny springtails spin through the air with the greatest of ease! In ponds and streams, they skyrocket out of the reach of hungry insects like water striders by slapping a tail-like appendage against the water. And you won’t believe how they stick the landing. SUBSCRIBE to Deep…

How a Mussel’s Foot Comes to Life | #DeepLook #Shorts

From Deep Look. For our #DeepLook episode, "How Does the Mussel Grow Its Beard?", our digital video designer Teodros Hailye narrates how he created this unique animation using ZBrush and Cinema 4D software to illustrate how mussels create byssal threads, known as the mussel’s “beard". They use these threads to attach themselves to rocks and…