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Saint Michael and the DragonSaint Michael and the Dragon

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DragonsFrom mythological beasts of history to the firebreathers of fantasy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

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BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An emu stares into the camera

20th Century

Q&AWhat was the Emu War?

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

General History

Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

Cockfighting pit with crown surrounding a fight

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Feather beds, cockfights and midnight flights to the moon: 5 fascinating chapters in avian history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pets, pests & portents: birds through time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A United Arab Emirates postage stamp issued in 1971 commemorating Laika, the Soviet dog who in 1957 became the first animal in orbit

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Animals in space: the creatures who paved the way for human travel beyond Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Louis Wain, c1900, with one of his pet cats. Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)

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Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Extinct animals of medieval Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How dogs shaped city life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cat got your tongue? It certainly seems to be the case with this surprised tabby

General Modern

Why do we say 'cat got your tongue'?

Victorian

Q&AWhy do we say ‘white elephant’?

Medieval

Basilisks, manticores and more: medieval fantastic beasts (and where to find them)

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Ancient Greece

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Victorian

A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter

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Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Smokey the bear is presented with a firefighter's helmet

General Modern

The paratrooper, the poet's pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in history

Victorian

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

A miller and a donkey

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9 things you could do with a medieval ass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ten things to do with a medieval donkey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 15th-century painting from a manuscript shows men fishing in a river. In medieval England, eels were both meals and de facto currency. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy

Tudor

A brief history of turkeys, plus why we eat a turkey dinner at Christmas

Charles Darwin

Victorian

Charles Darwin vs God: did the 'Origin of Species' cause a clash between church and science?

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David Olusoga"Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)

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Medieval eels and Englishness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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