Dr. Lauren Esposito, California Academy of Sciences (IMAGE)

California Academy of Sciences

Dr. Lauren Esposito, California Academy of Sciences

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Dr. Lauren Esposito, one of the world's only female scorpion biologists, is Curator of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Esposito and her colleagues describe two new genera and three new species of Earth's oldest living, land-based arthropods. Here, Esposito appears in the Academy's vast entomology collection -- a library of life for students and researchers around the world.

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