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Baffling purple egg-growing plant discovered on deep-sea dive... What is it?

22:10, Tuesday, 21 March, 2017
Baffling purple egg-growing plant discovered on deep-sea dive... What is it?

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 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?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?

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