Abstract

As Earthwatch volunteers sliced open the honey ant nest, they excitedly pointed to a black, wormlike structure protruding from the earth. They had inadvertently exposed the tail of a dormant scorpion (another hazard of our work on the Hamilton Downs cattle station 50 km from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia) while excavating a colony of honey ants.

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