The man who was credited for the discovering the “Worms from hell” was Tullis Onstott, a professor of geosciences from Princeton University, last year 2011 he discovered “Halicephalobus mephisto” a nematode worm living under the ground 0.9 – 3.6 kilometers (0.56–2.2 mi) the deepest multicellular organism known to science.
The remarkable study of the known “Worms from Hell” appeared on Wednesday’s edition of the journal Nature, during the first week of June, 2011.
Mr. Tullis Onstott and his co-researchers Gaetan Borgonie of the University of Ghent in Belgium found the creature in the deep Au mines of South Africa in a flowing water from borehole. Their research team projects includes:
- Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Institute: preparing for the search for life beneath the surface of Mars.
- Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines: installed a field laboratory at 3.8 km (2.4 mi) depth, exploring the relationship between seismic activity and microbial diversity and activity.
- Anaerobic biostimulation for the in situ precipitation and long-term sequestration of metal sulphides.
Tullis Onstott was listed among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in year 2007. He has been focusing his research for the last 15 years on subsurface microbial life and its implications for life on Mars and the origin of life. This research involves exploration of subsurface microbial ecosystems via mines, drilling, and new underground laboratories, and quantifying its community structure, function, and activity with molecular, isotopic, and geochemical tools.
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