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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Strange holes have been discovered by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the seabed around the mid-Atlantic Ridge, hundreds of meters below the surface.<\/p>\n

Marine researchers intend to investigate strange holes that were found on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Last month, NOAA released images of small cavities arranged in lines that were discovered on the seabed around the mid-Atlantic Ridge, at a depth of around 2.5 kilometers.<\/p>\n

Researchers initially appeared uncertain about what produced the holes, with NOAA even asking people on social media to provide ideas. Now, however, NOAA has collected water samples from the area in an attempt to find some \u201cenvironmental DNA\u201d that might shed light on this mystery, according to Newsweek.<\/p>\n

Vecchione argued that animals are the likely culprits, but in that case, it is still unclear what purpose the holes would serve and how they were created.<\/p>\n

“What I think is going on is that something is burrowing under the surface of the mud and periodically poking up chimneys, perhaps to get clean water down into its burrow and make it more habitable,” he suggested.<\/p>\n

The other alternative, Vecchione said, is that \u201csomething above the sediment is poking down, over and over again, sort of like a shorebird does.\u201d Vecchione pointed out, however, that while there are \u201ca lot of other suggestions,\u201d they still fail to explain the \u201cremarkable\u201d regularity of the holes\u2019 spacing.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Strange holes have been discovered by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the seabed around the mid-Atlantic Ridge, hundreds of meters below the surface. Marine researchers intend to investigate strange holes that were found on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. 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