‘Like the beginning of a horror movie’: Bizarre golden egg discovered in the depths of the sea

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The team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US weather and oceanographic agency, is currently surveying the seafloor in the Gulf of Alaska with underwater vehicles. Researchers stumbled upon something strange.

The device filmed a mysterious golden orb (or egg) with a hole in it, whose surface even resembled skin tissue. The lead was found near a volcano off Alaska.

Surface feels “skin-like”

The researchers poked the object with the robot’s remote-controlled arm. They then sucked it into a pipe about 2.3 kilometers deep to study it at the surface.

In the first analysis, the surface is described as “meat-like” and “soft”. The hole also confuses researchers: “Something was trying to get in or out,” said one of the researchers, who was broadcasting live from the mission.

“Like the beginning of a horror movie”

And someone joked: “I hope nothing comes out when we look inside. It’s like the beginning of a horror movie.”

Emily Crum of the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer told the Miami Herald that the object is currently being studied in a lab. Biologists made their first guess: It could be a dead sponge or eggshell; only: “What animal would make such an eggshell?” asked.

The deep-sea research team explores previously unknown areas in uncharted areas off Alaska, such as mud volcanoes, coral habitats and economically important deep-sea habitats. (what is that)

Source : Blick