What is the "golden orb" found in deep see by NOAA?
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Egg case of a fish
15%
Sponge
11%
Jellyfish
44%
Other

Description of the discovery:

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

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.

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Some time ago, NOAA released a report on the expedition: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/60802/noaa_60802_DS1.pdf Unfortunately, it only mentions that "Numerous media and web news outlets around the country and around the world covered the story about the mysterious golden object" and provides no followup.

Sharks count as fish right?

@SophusCorry Good point. Yes, I'd count sharks as fish.

How would this currently resolve if it's a crustacean egg or other non-fish egg?

@Aboczjr Unless someone adds such option, it would resolve to "Other"

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