Man Finds Huge Eyeball on Beach

[snopes]

State wildlife officials are trying to determine the source of a softball-size eyeball that washed ashore in South Florida.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...all-beach.html

[Chloe]

OMG. Romney had Big Bird whacked.

[musicgeek]

You win!

(And you're sick, sick, sick!)

[llewtrah]

Since it comes from a sea-dweller, can we start the "eye-eye cap'n" jokes?

[Twankydillo]

It looks like a squid eye to my untrained eye.

[Der Induktionator]

FWC spokeswoman Carli Segelson says the eyeball likely came from a marine animal, since it was found on a beach

I would agree, that conclusion is probably true.

[Gutter Monkey]

Whatever it was, it had some pretty blue peepers.

[Twankydillo]

I change my mind, it looks a lot more like a large swordfish eye than a squid's. The grey skin around the mystery eyeball looks like how the eye is shaped on a swordfish.

[Roadie]

Originally Posted by Chloe

OMG. Romney had Big Bird whacked.

I was drinking coffee. Now I have to clean it up off my desk, laptop, and wall.

[Cure the Blues]

Somewhere in the lightless deeps, great Cthulhu lies dreaming of vengeance.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Chloe

OMG. Romney had Big Bird whacked.

Thanksgiving at the Romney house with special guests:

[geminilee]

Originally Posted by Der Induktionator

I would agree, that conclusion is probably true.

Especially since we really don't have many land animals here in Florida that grow large enough to have eyes that size, and if a yummy morsel like that were in the water very long, something would have eaten it.

[JoeBentley]

Cephalopod eyes are very different from mammalian and fish eyes. It shouldn't be too hard to narrow it down to at least vertebra / invertebra.

[Cervus]

It does look very much like a fish eye (and some experts agree), but DAMN that would be an enormous swordfish. My father's a fisherman who also does taxidermy, so that's my point of reference. Average size of a full-grown swordfish is about 6 or 7 feet long...this would be a tournament-winning fish.

[snopes]

State experts believe they have solved the mystery of the giant eyeball that washed up on a Florida beach, saying it likely came from a swordfish.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...swordfish.html

[GenYus234]

And it had been shot with a official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range model air rifle.