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| Baffling purple egg-growing plant discovered on deep-sea dive... What is it? (POLL) | Baffling purple egg-growing plant discovered on deep-sea dive... What is it? (POLL) |
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| The NOAA’S Okeanos Explorer uncovered a mysterious purple egg-like object some 1840 meters below sea level and the internet is perplexed. | The NOAA’S Okeanos Explorer uncovered a mysterious purple egg-like object some 1840 meters below sea level and the internet is perplexed. |
| The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is in the midst of a three-week exploration of the unknown waters at Baker Island in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is in the midst of a three-week exploration of the unknown waters at Baker Island in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. |
| The goal of the deep-sea mission is to collect “baseline information” about what mysterious creatures lie within the uncharted territory. | The goal of the deep-sea mission is to collect “baseline information” about what mysterious creatures lie within the uncharted territory. |
| During Saturday’s dive, the Okeanos Explorer team discovered a baffling purple egg-like object and posed the question to the internet: what do you think it is? | |
| READ MORE: Stunning footage of ‘cosmic jellyfish’ captured in NOAA’s expedition (VIDEO) | READ MORE: Stunning footage of ‘cosmic jellyfish’ captured in NOAA’s expedition (VIDEO) |
| The team teased eager amatuer marine biologists on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the question, to which they received a multitude of guesses, including a Cephalopod egg, an Easter egg, Octopus egg, “some sort of sea tulip”, a shark egg, “the attack of the Pod People”, a nudibranch egg, “an odd mermaids purse”, but they have yet to put people out of their misery. | |
| Take our poll and tell us: What do you think it could be? | |