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1868 Mud Study
- When
- 1868
- Where
- Atlantic seafloor
Huxley studied an old sample of mud from the Atlantic seafloor taken in 1857, identifying a substance he believed to be primordial matter.
In 1868, Thomas Henry Huxley examined an old sample of mud from the Atlantic seafloor, which had been taken in 1857. He identified a substance within this mud as what he thought was primordial matter, naming it bathybius haeckelii.
Sources
- Bathybius haeckelii Wikipedia, revision of 2025-11-29
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