Scientists discovered a mysterious purple creature like a small ball at a depth of more than 1,600 meters below the Pacific Ocean.
According to Live Science, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Nautilus discovered a small purple sphere underneath a rock in Arguello alley, off the California coast, America, July 18.
The research team believes that this could be a new gastropods (snail-like molluscs of Gastropoda class). It is about 5cm in size.
Strange purple creature in the Pacific Ocean.(Photo: NOAA).
"Of the known species in California, no species is purple," said Susan Poulton, spokesman for Nautilus.
The video, taken by the remote-controlled submarine Hercules, shows that the purple sphere suddenly appears when scientists are concentrating on observing shellfish and crabs in the ocean floor at a depth of 1,616m.
The team collected the organism with a vacuum, then sent it to Harvard's Zoological Comparison Museum, USA, to conduct DNA and DNA analysis."We will take months to determine this is a new species," Poulton said.
