{"id":745909,"date":"2026-04-22T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/745909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:35:39","slug":"scientists-reveal-identity-of-mysterious-golden-orb-collected-during-noaa-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/745909\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal identity of mysterious \u2018golden orb\u2019 collected during NOAA expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A close up image of the \u201cgolden orb\u201d in the lab of the Smithsonian Institution. Following collection, the\u00a0orb sample was officially accessioned as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalhistory.si.edu\/research\/invertebrate-zoology\" class=\" ext-link-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Invertebrate Zoology Collection offsite link<\/a> at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of Natural History. The museum catalogs, curates and makes biological samples collected during expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer publicly available. The orb is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/n2t.net\/ark:\/65665\/34eab8317-0074-47c8-af0e-8d7a8943378a\" class=\" ext-link-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USNM_IZ_1699903 offsite link<\/a> within the museum collection. (Image credit: NOAA Fisheries)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close up image of the \u201cgolden orb\u201d in the lab of the Smithsonian Institution. Following collection, the\u00a0orb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":745910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[25055,292438,7052,307202,21000,307203,1183,159,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-745909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-discoveries","tag-earth-day","tag-marine-life","tag-ocean-coasts","tag-ocean-exploration","tag-okeanos-explorer","tag-research","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116449806185051318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}