J. Colin Murrell
Another scientist who also had the privilege to go below the surface was J. Colin Murrell. Another microbiologist hailing from the University of East Anglia, he says of the cave and its confines, “It’s very likely that the bacteria have been there a lot longer than five million years, but that the insects became trapped there around that time.” He goes on, “They could have simply fallen in and became trapped when the limestone cast dropped, sealing the cave until it was discovered again in 1986.”
