English biologist, thomas henry huxley discovered, in samples of deep sea sediments, a primordial ooze from which all other life forms evolved.

Close friend and supporter of Charles Darwin especially in his theory of evolution. 1868 examined samples of mud recovered from the deep-sea floor 11 years back to discover a surface layer of thick mucus-like material with small embedded particles on the samples. Bathybius haeckeliiafter famous naturalist Ernst Haeckel Subdivisions looked to move so he assumed they were a form of living protoplasm and he named the "organism".