Softball-sized eyeball washes up on Florida beach

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by GSDtravels on 11 October 2012 - 23:10

MIAMI—It's not that body parts never wash ashore on Florida beaches. But usually it's not an eye the size of a softball.

State wildlife officials are trying to determine the species of a blue eyeball found by a man Wednesday at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.

They put the eyeball on ice so it can be analyzed at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.

Agency spokeswoman Carli Segelson says the eyeball likely came from a marine animal, since it was found on a beach. Possible candidates include a giant squid, a whale or some type of large fish.

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by beetree on 12 October 2012 - 02:10

I just have to ask... why do we care? Is this the eyeball found on the dollar bill pyramid? Should we call the Knights who say Ni? Here's lookin' at you! How about them witches who share one eyeball in the quest of Jason and the argonauts... what were they called? Dang it. Now I'm not going to get some sleep thinking about this floating, eyeball of destiny. Just who's destiny? Please all deep sea fisherman, be aware, there is a one-eyed swimmer out there, and we DON't KNOW WHY.

by hexe on 12 October 2012 - 03:10

I'm sure that's the Alan Parson's Project's 'Eye in the Sky'...must have been shot down inadvertantly.

[For realz, though, it sure looks like the eyeball I saw removed from a HUMONGOUS great white shark when a couple of biologists disected it out on a nature-themed show I caught a month or so back on Discovery or PBS Nature or Nova or the like. Looks EXACTLY like that shark's eyeball.]

by GSDtravels on 12 October 2012 - 03:10

beetree, you really don't have to get your panties in a wad, if you're not interested, pass it by. Remember your own thread?

Hexe, I thought the same thing, that it looked like a shark's eye. All I can say is, I'm glad it wasn't staring me down on a dive!

by hexe on 12 October 2012 - 03:10

This is the program I saw: Inside Nature's Giants: Great White Shark

http://video.pbs.org/video/2192339379

There's also one on the Giant Squid, too, but I didn't watch that yet...could compare the eye of that to the shark's and see which looks closer to this one....pretty cool stuff, though, no matter what it's from.

by hexe on 12 October 2012 - 04:10

I'm not especially good at identifying this sort of thing, but I think beetree was joshing...

by GSDtravels on 12 October 2012 - 04:10

I'll watch that tomorrow after work, thanks for the link. I always like seeing sharks, with maybe the exception of the possibility that that eye came from one

As far as beetree, could be she was joking, but I don't know, she's been in a mood lately. If so, then I'll take that wad of panties out of my own crack

by beetree on 12 October 2012 - 11:10

Travels, as far as I know YOU are not an ass. So, yes, I was joking with you...

(Others can take their chances should they think I'm going to take their crap.)

by GSDtravels on 12 October 2012 - 22:10

Panties being removed from crack

by Kalibeck on 12 October 2012 - 22:10

I've been trying to post a reply.. Jh

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