The glowing pink object, about three meters long, is actually the rare egg coating of diamond ink.
Jay Winks, who runs the Abc Scuba Diving tourism company Port Douglas, shared a photo of a viscous pipe- like object he met in offshore Australia on Facebook earlier this month, according to Mother Nature Network. "Does anyone know this pink name? It's about three meters long and has a diameter of 100mm , " Winks wrote.
Cover diamond ink off Australia.(Photo: Jay Winks).
The photograph of an unusual object quickly caused a fever on social media, many arguing that the tubular is undoubtedly a marine creature like the pyrosome . Individuals that combine into herds sometimes reach more than 18 meters called zooid , also nicknamed "narwhal" because of their rarity.
However, the Winks object encountered is even rarer. When examined carefully, experts identified glowing pink objects that are not creatures but a giant egg wrap .
According to Rebecca Helm, a jellyfish biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, USA, glowing pink dots around the tube are actually eggs of diamond ink .
"These eggs are extremely rare. If I am there, I will scream for joy. I hope the divers know how lucky they are to see it , " Helm said.
Marine scientists estimate these egg covers can contain between 20,000 and 40,000 cubes. Although the lifespan lasts only a year, the calf can quickly reach a length of more than one meter.
Similar egg-covered eggs are found by divers in the island of Ticao, Philippines.(Video: YouTube).
