Subterranean Surprise
Posted: May 23, 2012
It almost never happened. Matthew Graham’s discovery of a new species of scorpion is one of those stories about a string of easily missed moments.
It was September 2009 and Graham was taking the last survey on the last night of the last research trip to Death Valley. His inventory of the area’s scorpion species was part of a collaborative project with UNLV professor Jef Jaeger and the National Park Service.
