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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the mystery of a bizarre golden orb found in the ocean
Links:
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719276v1.full.pdf
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/golden-orb
noaa.gov/news/scientists-reveal-identity-of-mysterious-golden-orb-collected-during-noaa-expedition
youtube.com/@oceanexplorergov/videos
#marinelife #biology #earth

0:00 Golden orb mystery from 2023
2:05 How this was found
4:20 Trying to identify this for 4 years
5:00 First breakthrough from the microscope analysis
6:02 Genome match - giant deep sea anemone
8:02 What happened here? Where's the rest?
9:55 Why this matters
11:20 Implications and conclusions

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