Walnut Creek Intern Makes Spider Discovery

Dan Sitzmann, 22, of Walnut Creek, was part of an itsy bitsy scientific discovery this summer.

Sitzmann was a summer intern with Brian Patrick, an assistant professor of biology at Dakota Wesleyan University. They discovered three new species of spider in the Fort Pierre National Grasslands as part of a research study.

Read about the spider study in the Mitchell (S.D.) Daily Republic.