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(13,796 posts) Thu Sep 7, 2023, 09:53 AM Sep 2023

A golden egg? Mysterious shiny orb seen on seafloor off Alaska stumps ocean explorers

NOAA news page https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oceanexplorationnews/

Lists a news item:

A golden egg? Mysterious shiny orb seen on seafloor off Alaska stumps ocean explorers

August 31, 2023 | Yahoo! News

A team of deep sea explorers visiting an extinct volcano found something resembling a golden egg 250 miles off the coast of southern Alaska. The discovery was made Wednesday, Aug. 30, as a NOAA Ocean Exploration team recorded video in “the deep abyssal depths of the Gulf of Alaska.

redirects to yahoo. Also at Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article278790414.html

Actually, the Miami Herald article is a bit more readable once you close the subscription nag and ignore the violence in the streets video etc.

Summary:

The discovery was made Wednesday, Aug. 30, as a NOAA Ocean Exploration team recorded video in “the deep abyssal depths of the Gulf of Alaska.”

This golden “egg” was seen by a team of NOAA-backed researchers off the southern coast of Alaska. Experts aren’t sure what it is.

There, at a depth of about 2 miles, sat a shiny golden orb — with a perplexing hole in it.

The “egg” proved to be fleshy like tissue when it was suctioned up for a DNA sample.

No results are available at this time.