Bay Area high school students describe two new scorpion species with Academy researcher
Identified on the community science platform iNaturalist, the species add to California’s rich biodiversity
California now has two new scorpions on its list of species, thanks to the efforts of two keen-eyed high school students from the Bay Area and the California Academy of Sciences. Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain, avid users on the community science platform iNaturalist, discovered the new-to-science scorpions while trawling the thousands of observations uploaded by other users in the state