Naturenet updates + news

We heard you wanted to see a picture of a simply enormous snail. So here it is: This massive beast is Achatina achatina, the giant Ghana snail: native to the

I used to have a tractor like this. Starting it was fun, but stopping it usually took about half-an-hour of coaxing!

The British Geological Survey has long been the alma mater of Britain’s rock nerds. Now it’s coming to your desktop – or pocket – with an impressive array of geology-based

How awesome is this? The bacterium Wolbachia is thought to parasitically infect “70 percent of the world’s invertebrates, coevolving with them”[1] (see previous posting on The Ranger’s Blog). Now research

Now this looks like fun: English Country Walks Blog has published a video and full instructions on how to perform a Two-person Hill Roll. Check it out:

The Ranger was doing some slightly worthy homework reading up on the Marine Bill White Paper. Intending to write a bit of new stuff for Naturenet, or maybe a post

Enjoy these beautiful and intriguing photographs of trees, and people, enjoying the outdoors on ‘little planets’. Taken by Seb Przd (and kindly shared by him on Flickr).

The magic of YouTube once more draws The Ranger’s attention to an outsize invertebrate: This massive slug is from the Namaqualand region of South Africa. The contributor, Mike Cope, helpfully

Naturenet regularly updates many pages, but this one gets done every year – and every year it’s a right chore. That’s because it involves The Ranger trawling through loads of