massive animals – The Ventilator

There was a time when being pitched against one another simply meant Elvis vs Cliff. But perhaps humans were adversarial

2020 Bingo: Cher’s Elephant, Hitler’s Reptile and the Chinese Duck Army

What a rollercoaster ride last year was. Or might have been, if we were actually allowed to visit a funfair.

We like to bring you the occasional large invertebrate on this blog. And even a huge vertebrate now and then. But here’s a big

Last seen in 1928, the colobognathÂ millipede Illacme plenipes is thought to have more legs than any other animal on earth

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

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

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

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

Way back in 2005 The Ranger blogged about an unexpected sighting of a flying Great Bustard (Otis tarda)seen over the

This weekend I discovered that the biggest fly in the UK was much bigger than I’d previously thought. Yes, we