The orb is being sent along with other samples from the expedition to Washington, D.C. for identification.
A “golden orb” found on the seafloor during the Okeanos Explorer’s Gulf of Alaska expedition.
“I’m not even sure that that was the most interesting thing on that dive,” he said. “We, aboard, pretty much forgot about it. And then once it started getting all the media attention, it was just like, ‘Oh, that’s what everybody’s focused on.’”“We don’t know what it is and I haven’t gotten any compelling ideas from people ashore. But a lot of theories right now are kind of the same ones that we had when we first came across it,” he said.
Underwater, the orb was a bit more circular and had kind of a golden shine, but when their drone brought a sample to the surface, it was a matte brown and had a flaky texture with a hard center.Scientists aboard the ship took several photos and ran tests. Candio said the crew will have to send the orb along with a myriad of other potential new species to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for further analysis.
He said while the orb intrigued the crew, they were more fascinated on this particular dive by seeing octopi tending to eggs — that’s previously been a rare sight. In their time in Alaska, the scientists found several octopi tending to eggs with 10 mothers off the coast of Kodiak Island.
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