Shocking video: they find a giant transparent egg in the sea | Chronic

All that glitters is not golden, and in many cases the saying falls like a ring on the finger. A few days ago, a huge curiosity was aroused by the appearance of a video showing a huge transparent egg found by divers under the icy waters of the Norwegian Sea, in the US. Atlantic Ocean.

A diver with a flashlight has approached this incredible translucent sphere that seems to have something similar to a living creature inside. However, the discovery did not show a huge jellyfish, let alone a giant squid egg, although it is a squid, because this mass protects its future offspring. The sphere is a huge mass of squid eggs.

The teutides (Teuthida) are an order of cephalopod molluscs, but not all species lay their eggs protected by a large mucous mass. In cases where they do, they sometimes join between these bags, until the formation of these great spheres. Even some species even throw seawater into the sphere to enlarge it. The discovery was explained directly by the Twitter account of the research vessel that found it, the REVOcean. The expedition filmed the bag of eggs at 15 meters deep and in waters at just 10 ° C during a dive performed on October 5 in the waters of a fjord. the Norwegian municipality of Orsta.

The researchers picked up a huge bag of jelly containing thousands of eggs from a creature with ten tentacles inside. The clip has become a trend in Mexico, Spain and the United States. Ronald Raasch, a man fighting for marine conservation, descended to the bottom of the sea with his partner Nils Baadnes, to capture the marine species that live there. But they never imagined they would find this gigantic gel mass that looked more like an extraterrestrial egg than a sci-fi movie.

Protective mass

The huge spherical bag, in which two people could fit perfectly, was actually a mass designed to protect thousands of molluscs at the beginning of their development. These types of egg bags are at great depths and last only a few days before the larvae grow and hatch, destroying the surrounding tissue. The netizens who viraliser the images first claimed that it was further evidence that "Nature is wonderful"and some thought it was exotic eggs.

The discovery is quite rare because to start this type of sphere, all the squids do not put them. Only certain species such as neon-flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) or Humboldt's squid (Dosidicus gigas) come together to create those spheres containing thousands of eggs in the interior. In addition, the spheres may gradually sink until they end at a depth of about 150 meters, where squids hatch from their eggs.

Whatever the case may be, and although the videos look huge, the bag actually was only one meter in diameter, but there are several, like the one filmed in 2015 by the divers from National Geographic.