Jet Black Eggs Recovered From Deep Ocean

Yesterday, 10:15 AM ESTThe abyssal depths of the ocean harbor slippery secrets. Take what researchers in Japan just dredged up: mysterious, jet black eggs so smooth and shiny they're like gross little marbles of darkness., the eggs — technically egg capsules, or cocoons — were discovered at some 20,000 feet deep in the Kuril-Kumchatka Trench in the northwest Pacific, one of the deepest oceanic trenches on the planet.

Study co-author Keiichi Kakui at Hokkaido University said that he was initially stumped by what he found. flatworms known to inhabit far shallower depths. At their developmental phase, the researchers said the deep sea specimens appeared virtually indistinguishable at a superficial level to their surface-dwelling cousins.

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