After nearly three years of investigation, NOAA scientists have identified the mysterious golden orb found two miles deep off Alaska in 2023 as part of a giant deep-sea anemone, Relicanthus daphneae.

Something strange surfaced out of the Alaskan darkness in the summer of 2023, and it stopped scientists cold. Footage from a robotic camera more than two miles beneath the Gulf of Alaska suddenly ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said. By John Yoon Explorers sent a robot two miles under the ocean’s ...