Scientists have Discover a weird, bright purple blob on the ocean-floor

Strange as it may seem, not absolutely everyone is hunting for rare Pokémon on their phones correct now.

While the rest of us are glued to Pokémon Go, work scientists are continuing their mission to find, you know, actual latest lifeforms – and a squad of marine biologists combing the ocean floor off the coast of Southern California might presently have hit pay-dirt, coming crossways this weird, bright purple blob.

Discovered by scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust on the study vessel E/V Nautilus, the purple blob is as yet fully unidentified – creating no small quantity of enthusiasm among the researchers as they find it, which you can take pleasure in the video above.

In detail, the coolest thing about this finding – apart from the fact that we might have presently stumbled upon an totally new species, of course – is seeing presently how much fun the biologists are having as they make their discover, throwing out nicknames like Blobus Purpilis and wondering presently what the hell this thing is.

Observing the organism from a camera on their distantly operate underwater vehicle (ROV) – which was actually there to learn coral – the team speculate about what the bright orb is, suggesting that it could be a marine invertebrate called a tunicate, or some type of egg sac contain an embryo.

"I'm stumped, I have no plan. I can't even hazard a guess," one of the researchers admits to her own wonder.

A different scientist ponder whether it's a few kind of undersea spider egg sac, at which point someone says, "Let's leave it then… we don't want to mess with spider egg sacs." Marine biology gold!

Just as the researchers are about to make bigger one of the ROV's arms to extract the blob for analysis, there's a instant of comic tension as a wandering crab appear to make a play for the blob itself.

Finally, once the crab scuttles off a ways, the team uses a suction tube to get a hold of the blob, and currently the researchers will have a possibility to examine the find and maybe figure out presently what this mysterious purple orb is.

Although, as the finish of the video makes clear, it could get scientists several years to determine if the organism is indeed a latest species – so we're presently going to have to wait, guys.

You can discover out more about the E/V Nautilus's ongoing study mission at the vessel's web site, and be sure to test out their live feed too – because you not at all know when the next alien-esque sphere thingy is gonna show.