From top-dog wolves and wise elder elephants to insect royalty and sex-changing fish, animal alphas take many fascinating forms

Fireflies are kept inside webs for as long ...

Are men from Mars and women from Venus? No, it’s much stranger than that…

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

Amazing answers to your curious questions

A bird’s proteinaceous plumage comes from the same source as our hair