For most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died. “We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey. But that day was pivotal for the then 18-year-old Harvey for a different reason. It was the first time he had collected a pseudoscorpion – a tiny and ancient relative of the spider he had found under a rock in western Victoria and popped into a jar of ethanol for preservation. This year Harvey has become one
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