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We knew something was there, because four years earlier Onstott had discovered several microbes at or near the bottoms of South African deep gold operations.
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Onstott had first explored the deep underground for microbes as part of a Department of Energy drilling program in Savannah, Ga., and later at a Texaco well site in western Virginia.
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Although the paper has yet to be published and fully critiqued by the scientific community, Borgonie and Onstott said in their submission letter to a scientific journal, "The presence of nematodes kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth is like finding Moby Dick in Lake Ontario."
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He hadn't initially planned to return to South Africa, but the lure of the mines and the creatures they hide quickly pulled him back -- especially once he was able to persuade Onstott to join him in writing the scientific paper they hoped would introduce the "worms from Hell" to the world.
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Six months later, Borgonie, Onstott and their colleagues produced a paper describing, for the first time, the presence of multicelled organisms as many as 2.5 miles below Earth's surface.
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"We tried to get the title of the paper to be 'Worms from Hell,'" study author Tullis Onstott of Princeton University told LiveScience.
Worms From Hell: Scientists Discover Multicellular Organisms Deep In Earth's Surface 2011
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"We tried to get the title of the paper to be 'Worms from Hell,'" study author Tullis Onstott of Princeton University told LiveScience.
Worms From Hell: Scientists Discover Multicellular Organisms Deep In Earth's Surface 2011
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The two lead researchers, Gaetan Borgonie of the University of Ghent in Belgium and Tullis Onstott of Princeton University, said the discovery of creatures so far below ground, with nervous, digestive and reproductive systems, was akin to finding “Moby Dick in Lake Ontario.”
Worms From Hell: Scientists Discover Multicellular Organisms Deep In Earth's Surface 2011
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The two lead researchers, Gaetan Borgonie of the University of Ghent in Belgium and Tullis Onstott of Princeton University, said the discovery of creatures so far below ground, with nervous, digestive and reproductive systems, was akin to finding “Moby Dick in Lake Ontario.”
Worms From Hell: Scientists Discover Multicellular Organisms Deep In Earth's Surface 2011
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A reading of the genome of Onstott's astounding bacterium, as well as analysis of the "age" of the water that is often its home, says that the microbe has not seen the light of day, or interacted with anything produced from sunlight, for perhaps up to 40 million years.
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