NOAA Ocean Exploration came across an blue, bumpy and formless unknown organism while exploring the depths of the Caribbean Sea near St. Croix, the agency said.
You can now listen to Fox News articles!uncovered what they described as unknown organisms that appeared blue and formless during a recent dive.southwest of St. Croix,A photo posted on the agency’s website from the expedition shows one of the blue organisms covered in apparent bumps. At the time of observation, scientists were uncertain whether this organism seen during Dive 08 of the third Voyage to the Ridge expedition was a soft coral, a sponge, or a tunicate.
"At the time of observation, scientists were uncertain whether this organism seen during Dive 08 of the third Voyage to the Ridge expedition was a soft coral, a sponge, or a tunicate," the NOAA Ocean Exploration said. A tunicate is anstream of the dive, scientists could only agree that what they found was"weird" and that it was"not a rock," the Miami Herald reported.
The expedition consisted of a series of dives"to collect baseline information about unexplored and poorly understood deep-water areas of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and Azores Plateau," according to the agency. The aggregation of sea urchins, with at least 35 individuals, was a rarely observed phenomenon seen during Dive 08 of the third Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition.Conolampas sigsbei
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