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

After a years-long battle to secure her inheritance as heiress of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Maria Theresia (pictured above) arrived in Prague, the capital of what was then Bohemia, clutching the

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Fee-fi-fo-fum! it may not make a great deal of grammatical sense, but this phrase is certain to conjure up mental images of magic beans, rampant beanstalks and one very angry giant. Colossal-sized hum

One of eight wood ant species found in Europe, the European red wood ant (Formica polyctena) leads a remarkable yet largely unseen life. Living in vast social colonies that can number in the millions,

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