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Marine Biologists Finally Figured Out The Mysterious Golden Orb

2026-05-24 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX 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: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719276v1.full.pdf https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/golden-orb/ https://www.noaa.gov/news/scientists-reveal-identity-of-mysterious-golden-orb-collected-during-noaa-expedition https://www.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 Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com NOAA Fisheries Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@yaakattak1565 2026-05-24

HELLO WONDERFUL ANTON THIS IS PERSON

877 46 replies
@rosekay5031 2026-05-24

Gold thing minding it's business, sucked up into an alien craft and abducted to a strange world on the surface 😮😢

444 21 replies
@captainKedger 2026-05-25

Scientists 6 thousand years ago: 1) What is it? 2) I don't know 1) poke it with a stick Scientists today: 1) what is it? 2) I don't know 1) poke it with the robotic arm

384 34 replies
@rdbchase 2026-05-24

The real mystery is how that blob was ever described as an "orb", which it manifestly is not.

343 14 replies
@randallpetersen9164 2026-05-23

"This is usually how horror movies start!" Well at least some of these researchers have seen Alien, the Abyss, Sphere, Deep Star 6, Leviathan, Underwater, Gods of the Deep, Life, and/or whatever else I'm forgetting.

181 13 replies
@AlbrechtDurer-q2c 2026-05-24

The holy hand grenade of Antioch?

173 11 replies
@MCsCreations 2026-05-24

I just hope it doesn't jump at anyone's face...

131 10 replies
@AlbrechtDurer-q2c 2026-05-25

Funny facts; that blob was discovered by Marine biological scientist George Costanza. The Sea was angry that day my friends. Like and old man at the deli returning soup.

54 1 replies
@50Nobody50 2026-05-25

with a friendly golden blob like this, who needs anemones

49 3 replies
@captainleisuresuit 2026-05-25

Glad that Anton covered this, as I had resisted clicking numerous clickbait headlines about it.

19 1 replies

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