Description of the discovery:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/mysterious-skin-like-golden-orb-found-on-ocean-floor-off-alaska-coast

Mysterious ‘skin-like’ golden orb found on ocean floor off Alaska coast

Scientists analysing DNA of object that could be an egg from an unknown sea creature or a marine sponge

Will close once the team shares a publication/preprint/press release with what they believe are final findings on the subject (most likely this will be a classification into a phylogenetic group based on DNA). Will resolve to the preprint findings if there are no comments (Pubpeer, social media, ...) disputing the results two weeks after the release. If there is dispute, I may wait for resolution or resolve to my understanding of the community consensus.

If no followup is published in two years, this resolves NA.

Update: answers need to be added before the results are made public. Answers added later won't receive any payout

Since the resolution is partially subjective, I will not bet on this market.