Geomicrobiology Group

Professors and students from University of the Free State, 1st row; Elsabe Botes, Elizabeth Ojo, Eron Cason; 2nd row; Thule Tialaioe, Maleke Maleke, Mariana Erasmus, Christelle Van Rooven, Suzanne Litthauer,  Back row; Esta Van Heerden, Henriette Botha, Abhita Jugdave, Walter Muller and Armand Bester.

Discover Interview
June 26, 2012

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-tullis-onstott-2-miles-down-microbes-live-radiation

Engineering News
June 6, 2012

http://cenblog.org/newscripts/2012/06/the-new-species-on-the-block/

Engineering News
April 26, 2012

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/study-of-extreme-organisms-in-sa-mines-may-hold-answers-to-extraterrestrial-life-pollution-threats-2012-04-26

Onstott's discovery of worms in Earth's depths raises questions about life in space
Posted July 11, 2011

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S31/01/42E33/index.xml?section=topstories

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/06/01/meet-mephisto-the-worm-that-rules-the-underworld/  

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110601-deepest-worm-earth-devil-science-animals-life/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/science/07obworm.html?_r=1&ref=science

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/75065/title/Go_deep,_small_worm

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/hungry-worms-from-hell.html?ref=hp

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-microscopic-worm-thrives-deep-underground

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110601/full/news.2011.342.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/discovery-of-worms-from-hell-deep-beneath-earths-surface-raises-new-questions/2011/05/31/AGnzJTGH_story.html

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/58187/

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20534-goldmine-worm-shows-animals-could-be-living-on-mars.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/first-subsurface-animal/

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4372/subterranean-worms-rule-underworld

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=144509

 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2076281,00.html?artId=2076281?contType=article?chn=sciHealth