A mysterious purple orb found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean stumped NOAA scientists onboard the Nautilus research vessel. (NOAA)
Posted on 07/28/2016 6:44:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
"Have a look at that dark purple blob on the left, there."
With those words, scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus uncovered a marine mystery: a small purple orb tucked halfway under a rock off the coast of California.
Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch — and possibly a new species.
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A mysterious purple orb found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean stumped NOAA scientists onboard the Nautilus research vessel. (NOAA)
It is a flip-flop you dummies.
Uhhh.. Go Vikes 8-!!!
It’s full of starfish!
Obviously it’s an ultraviolet party light. You can’t see the light flashing from it because the camera is not UV sensitive.
I have alway wondered since they started including purple Trix cereal... Now I know...
It’s Jerry Garcia come back to earth.
egg of the giant purple people eater
Ask for them by name.
Is this the same type nasty orb that’s all over Hillary Clinton’s back and legs [and caused her to have hairy toes]
The One Eyed, one Horned ,,,?
I, for one, welcome our new purple overlords.
Email me at my personal page. There is something that needs to be said to you.
that’s cool. thanks for posting.
i would love to see more oceanic exploration rather than space, seems there is so much we don’t know about our own beautiful planet.
they just discovered a new species of whale too.... amazing what still hides in our vast oceans.
LOL!
Japanese businessmen are bidding big yen for the opportunity to eat it.
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