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What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel? | Deep Look
- Published_at:2015-03-31
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- description: Scientists have used a high-speed camera to film hummingbirds' aerial acrobatics at 1000 frames per second. They can see, frame by frame, how neither wind nor rain stop these tiniest of birds from fueling up. DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short...
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Newt Sex: Buff Males! Writhing Females! Cannibalism! | Deep Look
- Published_at:2015-03-17
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- description: 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. Their mating ritual is a raucous affair that involves bulked-up males, writhing females and a little...
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Banana Slugs: Secret of the Slime | Deep Look
- Published_at:2015-02-17
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- description: Beneath the towering redwoods lives one of the most peculiar creatures in California: the banana slug. They're coated with a liquid crystal ooze that solves many problems slugs face in the forest -- and maybe some of our own. SUBSCRIBE:...
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The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters | Deep Look
- Published_at:2015-01-07
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- description: Sea otters aren’t just cute -- they’re a vivid example of life on the edge. Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their survival? A fur coat...
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What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look
- Published_at:2014-11-18
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- description: Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What… gall! And you’d be right. They’re called gall-inducers. And each miniature mansion the trees build...
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Pygmy Seahorses: Masters of Camouflage | Deep Look
- Published_at:2014-10-21
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- description: Tiny and delicate, pygmy seahorses survive by attaching to vibrant corals where they become nearly invisible to both predators and researchers. Now, biologists at the California Academy of Sciences have successfully bred them in captivity for the...
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