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An enormous jumping spider

17th July, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments huge animals, jumping, spiders, video

Jumping spiders are, on the whole, pretty tiny things. And I say ‘pretty’ deliberately as they are amongst the cutest, funniest and

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Wasp scissors are safe and simple.

13th July, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments bagley, challenge, scissors, wasps, woodwork

In days gone by, we hear from time to time, people used to make their own entertainment. Indeed they did;

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Well, that worked… sort of.

3rd July, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment eel, fish, puffer fish, sea

So what’s the big idea with puffer fish? Puff out, frighten off your enemy and make yourself too big to

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Birds The Ranger's surfing highlights 

Why are there no really big insects any more? Blame birds.

9th June, 201214th February, 2018 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments birds, dragonflies, fossils, insects, invertebrates, massive animals

It’s no secret that 300 million years ago, the largest insects were a lot bigger than they are now. The largest

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Invasive species The Ranger's surfing highlights 

Smearing toads with haemorrhoid cream… humanely

6th June, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 7 Comments amphibians, australia, invasive, non-native, piles

Regular readers will remember the anguish with which celebrities and commoners alike rallied round the cause of poor old introduced

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Four massive wasps

16th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment hornets, massive animals, Vespa mandarinia, wasps

We heard you wanted to see a picture of four massive wasps. So here they are. These appear to be

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Anatomy of a wasp

13th May, 20127th July, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments wasp, wasps
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A simply enormous fruit bat

4th March, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments bats, massive animals

It’s not an invertebrate, but even so, we heard you wanted to see a picture of a simply enormous fruit

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An Australian snake eats a goanna

4th January, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments snakes

We heard you like to see pictures of large invertebrates. Well, so do we, but this isn’t one of them.

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We heard you wanted to see…

20th June, 2011 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments centipede, massive animals

…a picture of a simply enormous centipede. So here it is. This is Scolopendra heros, the aptly-named giant red-headed centipede.

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