Graham Readfearn, How many spiders and pseudoscorpions does it take to make one of the world’s greatest taxonomists?, The Guardian, 6 December 2025
Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’.
For most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died.
“We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey. But that day was pivotal for the then 18-year-old Harvey for a different reason.