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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - Scientists exploring caves in piles of rocks fell around the sides of Yosemite Valley have discovered a new species of spider predators with claws of fear, scorpion-style, but do not sting and eyes, according to a September 30 article published by the Museum of Texas Tech University.
Biologist Jean Krejca led the expedition of 2007, whose members were turning rocks, making a study of organisms living in the Cueva del Indio, where they found a previously unknown species of pseudoscorpion.
"Generally, they have their claws open and are in a defensive position," said Krejca.
Although Krejca is a veteran of expeditions and discoveries of cave species, said he still gets excited.
"Pseudo Scorpions are one of the great things to find in the caves, as they are on top of the food chain in a cave. It's like finding a lion out on the savannah in Africa. "
This particular pseudoscorpion called yosemite parobisium in the document and Texas Tech Krejca Cokendolpher taxonomist James, is the size of a fingernail and has a reddish head and claws with a pale body. He joins 16 other species of pseudo-
doscorpions found in other parts of the United States, Korea, China and Japan.
The Yosemite is the pseudoscorpion pseudoscorpion only of its kind ever found in the caves and talus Troglobite second, a being adapted to cold conditions and dark of the caves. Yosemite National Park
Biologist Jean Krejca led the expedition of 2007, whose members were turning rocks, making a study of organisms living in the Cueva del Indio, where they found a previously unknown species of pseudoscorpion.
"Generally, they have their claws open and are in a defensive position," said Krejca.
Although Krejca is a veteran of expeditions and discoveries of cave species, said he still gets excited.
"Pseudo Scorpions are one of the great things to find in the caves, as they are on top of the food chain in a cave. It's like finding a lion out on the savannah in Africa. "
This particular pseudoscorpion called yosemite parobisium in the document and Texas Tech Krejca Cokendolpher taxonomist James, is the size of a fingernail and has a reddish head and claws with a pale body. He joins 16 other species of pseudo-
doscorpions found in other parts of the United States, Korea, China and Japan.
The Yosemite is the pseudoscorpion pseudoscorpion only of its kind ever found in the caves and talus Troglobite second, a being adapted to cold conditions and dark of the caves. Yosemite National Park
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