Kellianne Matthews

Quick Take Sharks played with toys far more after eating than before, and that timing detail changes everything researchers thought about why they were doing it.

Quick Take Earthquake sensors were never meant to track whales, yet the accidental recordings they've been quietly collecting could unlock decades of hidden whale behavior.

Quick Take The animal locals blamed for destroying their crops turned out to be completely innocent, and the real culprit was one nobody had suspected.

Quick Take A chickadee's brain grows every autumn and then deliberately destroys itself come spring, and the reason why reveals something unexpected about the true cost of memory.

Quick Take Spiders are notorious loners, yet an entire colony of these Madagascar spitters shares meals without a single conflict.

You've likely heard the classic story before: daddy longlegs are the most venomous creatures on earth, but their fangs are too short to bite humans.

The story sounds scientific enough to be true: daddy longlegs carry venom so deadly they could kill you, saved only by fangs too small to break skin. Scientists have a very different story to tell.

Quick Take This frog is neon orange, and yet scientists spent seven years failing to find it. The reason they finally did has nothing to do with its color.

When people think of incredible engineering, they often picture massive structures like the Hoover Dam.

Beavers spend weeks hauling logs and packing mud to build one of nature's most impressive structures, yet they never sleep inside it. The dam is just the beginning of a far more clever survival strategy hidden in plain sight.