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The past has not passed its sell-by date

4th July, 202224th June, 2022 Cat James 0 Comments iwcp, massive animals, sustainability

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

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

4th September, 2021 Cat James 0 Comments funny, iwcp, massive animals, wtf

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

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Behold, the tree lobster. (Spoiler: not a lobster)

10th October, 201710th October, 2017 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments australia, lord howe island, massive animals, rats, stick insect

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

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Nice legs! The world’s leggiest animal is rediscovered.

15th November, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments invertebrates, massive animals, millipedes

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

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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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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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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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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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The lucky bustards

29th March, 2010 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments birds, bustards, massive animals

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

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Check out this massive fly

7th June, 200925th August, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 62 Comments flies, invertebrates, massive animals

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

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