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| Giant Eyeball Washes Ashore in Florida |
| 2012-10-13 |
| Keep a sharp eye on this story... Staring out at the ocean is a favorite pastime for beachgoers everywhere. But not many folks are accustomed to the ocean staring back. However, that's just what happened the other day for one Pompano Beach, Fla., man. Gino Covacci was strolling down the beach on Wednesday and saw something ball-like and went to investigate. When he rolled the object over, he found it was, indeed, a ball--a softball-sized blue eyeball. "It was nice and clear, it was fresh," Covacci told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Covacci immediately handed over the specimen to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which planned to preserve the eye and send it to St. Petersburg for analysis. Covacci believes what he found is the eye of a squid or octopus, but experts examining the eye aren't so sure. "Because of bone around the eye, we can probably rule out a squid," commission spokesperson Carli Segelson told ABCnews.com. Squid, like octopus, are invertebrates. So what else has so huge an eye? "It would be premature to guess," said Segelson. One possibility is that the eye came from a large fish but she declined to speculate further. "Swordfish is one possibility," said Segelson, "but we can't even say one hundred percent that it's a fish." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Can't be Godzilla or Megladon or the Croc that both NYC + Tiffany - they're still making movies in Hollywood. AND "SAURON" IT IS! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-10-13 22:03 |
| #11 "It would be premature to guess," said Segelson. Henghis Hapthorn lives! (NOTE: Extremely obscure joke. Pay it no mind.) |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2012-10-13 20:08 |
| #10 Sauron Before: Sauron After: |
| Posted by: Omomose Gray6780 2012-10-13 14:55 |
| #9 Uh oh. Anyone seen Sauron? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2012-10-13 11:51 |
| #8 GODZIRRA!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-10-13 11:42 |
| #7 Cthulhu had an accident? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-10-13 11:14 |
| #6 It's a prank on Abu Hamza |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-10-13 11:02 |
| #5 Yes, it's amazing you've given birth to a 4 lb. eye. That's the good news.... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-10-13 08:00 |
| #4 According to my Florida peeps, it's a swordfish eye. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2012-10-13 07:46 |
| #3 Didin't I see this in a Far Side cartoon once? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-10-13 07:30 |
| #2 I, for one, welcome out giant Cyclops overlords. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-10-13 06:55 |
| #1 I thought it was Giant Squid for sure, whatever the hell it was must had some serious naked eye astronomy going for it. Thing looks to be large enough to resolve not only the rings, but the Cassini Division. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-10-13 06:01 |