In 2010, Neil Marchington discovered an entire new taxonomic family of spiders in an Oregon cave. Since then, he says his spelunking expeditions have turned up dozens of potential new species. OPB
.] It started out as a hobby, but in the past decade, he’s carved out an unusual niche as a highly respected, subterranean citizen scientist.Today he’s on a mission to find specimens of an undocumented white millipede species, as well as any other critters that he doesn’t recognize, and he’s brought along his daughter, Aspen, as well as his friend, Lonnie Seiders, and Bureau of Land Management biologist Jason Riley.
“Then, months and months go by, and we finally hear back that it’s an entirely new [taxonomic] family, which was just a remarkable discovery,” Marchington says. “It’s something that hadn’t happened in North America for over a hundred years.” The scientists had named it Trogloraptor marchingtoni, as a credit to Marchington’s field work. Newspapers started calling him from around the world, and the story ran everywhere from The Telegraph of London to The Pakistani Times.
“I found an arachnid,” happily chimes 13-year-old Aspen. “He’s cute. He’s on this web, and I’m just going to assume his gender.” Granted, there’s a screen in it to catch them and them blow them into a vial, but Marchinton said simply, “Things sometimes come through.” “I’m just too used to being in caves: I can’t stand the sunlight,” Aspen joked, with a black hoodie pulled low over her eyes and blue-dyed hair. “I’m a vampire. It’s my dad’s fault.”
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