Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach

[Emit]

Source: Sun Sentinel

A giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature washed ashore Wednesday in Pompano Beach.

No one knows what species the huge eyeball came from, but whatever it is, it has blue eyes and has to be big enough to have eyeballs bigger than softballs. Among the possibilities being discussed are a giant squid, some other large fish or a whale or other large marine mammal.

~snip~

Wildlife officers placed the eyeball on ice. It will be preserved in formalin and sent for analysis to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.



Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/fl-mystery-eyeball-20121011,0,2071938.story

[McCamy Taylor]

1. DNA should tell---unless it is a hoax.

[Babette]

11. Hopefully they subsampled in ethanol

Formalin will destroy the DNA, making analysis impossible.

[HereSince1628]

41. That was my first thought when I read the op

[Ter]

69. It can't tell if it's from an unknown cryptic

Such as a sea monster or the like.

[rwsanders]

2. Probably a whale killed by the navy's super sonar

[Shivering Jemmy]

13. Do you have data to justify that probability!

That's a strong statement of confidence

[PuraVidaDreamin]

18. Huge eyeballs

On you now low post count.

[gateley]

26. Haha!

[freshwest]

28. Yes, the *experts* will tell us everything just in time for the election. Next, grammar nazis.

[ashling]

46. Chill

[randome]

49. Welcome to DU!

In case the previous responders came across as too damned serious!

[Liberalynn]

3. gross but interesting

[dipsydoodle]

4. Probably a marine shallot

as in "eye, eye, that's shalot"

[randome]

5. It's the eye on the back of the dollar bill!

[2on2u]

6. Eye eye eye don't know what to say to that.... n/t

[lastlib]

8. It's one of Ryan's "Lyin' Eyes"!

He tried to hide it, but he can't!

"YOU can't hide your lyin' eyes,
And your smile is a thin disguise;
I thought by now you'd reali-i-ize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes.

My, oh, my, you sure know how to arrange things,
You set it up so well, so carefully,
Ain't it funny how your new lie didn't change things...
You're still the same old (filthy lying sack of whaleshit) you used to be."

(apologies to the Eagles)

[Auntie Bush]

29. If he shows up at the debate with a black patch over one eye....we'll know it was his!

[Ikonoklast]

43. He doesn't have an extra one to spare.

[Canuckistanian]

56. Hahahaha

Jeebus.... you should warn a person before posting

[MADem]

61. That is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! Full marks!!!!! My first thought when I saw this OP... nt

[Emit]

86. Bwhahaha!

omg...

[KansDem]

9. OH, NO!!!

[Poll_Blind]

10. Which is funny, because eyes and other soft tissue are the first to be consumed by...

...scavengers when a creature dies underwater.



PB

[Alamuti Lotus]

24. that was my thought as well

which begs the question, was this 'missed' or 'avoided' by the other creatures?

[Ash_F]

37. Eyeballs are pretty damn hard, like a stone.

Have you ever removed one, like in a class dissection? I was shocked the first time I removed a squid eye. It was like a little marble.

[Poll_Blind]

50. I agree about the sclera, not so much about the cornea. If you look at decay in water...

...you're going to see eyes, anus, every single orifice used as feeding ground/entrance first. I agree that an eyeball is tough but in a decay situation I guess what I'm saying is it's puzzling that the eyeball would be completely detached like that before the cornea's punctured.

I am not an expert by any means though.

PB

[Rowdyboy]

12. I, for one welcome our big-eyed alien overlords....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Fv1L_nkPbxw/TS8fuy6dseI/AAAAAAAAAHM/u1BE8A6L3po/s1600/simpsons_kang_kodos[1].jpg

[christx30]

55. I got sad when I saw the headline

I thought the Doctor had failed to scare the Atraxi away from Earth. "Going away is good. Never coming back is better."

[Baitball Blogger]

14. It's a sex toy from China?

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-20/news/32339619_1_mushroom-villagers-strange-object

[steve2470]

70. lmao well played ! nt

[shireen]

15. cool!

i'm betting it's from a giant squid, Architeuthis .

[Sancho]

16. oh hell, there's an monster eye ball near me???

I guess I better mail in my ballot before the undocumented aliens attack!

[tridim]

17. Yes, someone has a job ID'ing giant marine eyeballs.

Just FedEx it over pal.

[Xipe Totec]

19. It's an eye phone

[Hissyspit]

77. Ha!

I had forgotten about that.

[proud patriot]

20. godzilla?

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. wow! that is big!

[yankeepants]

22. Does Paul Ryan still have both of his? n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

58. That's EXACTLY what I thought when I read this!

[slackmaster]

23. That has to be a squid eye

I don't see any sign of the ligaments that you'd find on a mammalian eye.

[SemperEadem]

25. that's a pretty big eye

I sure don't want to meet who that belongs to...

[petronius]

34. Why not? It wouldn't be able to see you...

[SemperEadem]

36. do you honestly think

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humans are the only creatures who have 4 other senses besides sight?

smell--scent in the water of a warm blooded human mammal... ability to feel vibrations (as opposed to being able to hear)... ability to locate by electrical impulse... blah blah blah

you don't know what that creature can or can't see.

[jberryhill]

27. It's all fun and laughs until someone loses an eye

[undeterred]

30. It keeps looking at me.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. more pics and snarky comments here.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Softball-sized-eyeball-washes-up-on-Florida-beach-3940514.php#photo-3577835

[GeorgeGist]

32. Cheap thrills ...

no there, there.

[klook]

33. The huge pair of scissors the creature was running with hasn't turned up yet. (n/t)

[randome]

35. Aquaman isn't kidding around anymore!

[Ash_F]

38. The professor said most likely swordfish and I can see that.

They can get pretty large.

[randome]

39. And they're sharp because, you know, they have swords on their noses!

Must make mating an interesting process.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

40. .

[AlbertCat]

42. It's Romney's fact-checker's eyeball.....

The other one should wash up soon.

[triplepoint]

44. Does It Have "Legs?"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

45. And, of course...

[Don C. Nuttin]

47. I wish we could ask it.

Maybe its seen Romney's tax returns.

[Peregrine Took]

48. So sad. What on earth could happened to the poor guy?

Was he torn limb from limb?

Jackasses on local Chicago radio were making jokes on this subject. Not funny.

[randome]

51. Ralph Waldo Emerson's original model?

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=853&bih=377&tbm=isch&tbnid=MatDCywEpF37-M:&imgrefurl=http://mannenglish.edublogs.org/&docid=SVZ2FUMilzXqVM&imgurl=&w=250&h=246&ei=GHl3UKHtNqLbyQHJt4GICg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=609&vpy=7&dur=299&hovh=196&hovw=200&tx=182&ty=126&sig=106415036804199459274&page=2&tbnh=102&tbnw=105&start=15&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:15,i:173

[Herlong]

52. Huge eyeball from unknown creature.

The huge eyeball the actual earth trying to visually make sense of Mitt Romney being a viable candidate for President of the United States of America.

[randome]

53. Earth couldn't take it anymore and had to gouge out her own eyes!

[lonestarnot]

54. Is its name Ryan?

[0rganism]

57. Come Lord Cthulhu! Your earthly kingdom awaits!

[Enrique]

59. some creature is out there bumping into things n/t

[harmonicon]

60. This is my favourite headline ever.

I hope to hear the followup.

[randome]

73. "Huge monocle from unknown eyeball washes ashore on Florida beach"

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[raccoon]

62. Sounds just like a grade B horror movie from the '50's, early '60's. nt

[madguitarist]

63. I'm wondering

Has anyone considered what size critter knocked the other critter's eye out?
Oh My!!

[hockeynut57]

64. would losing a giant eyeball be considered a pre existing condition? nt

[randome]

65. Don't worry. There's a voucher for that!

[hockeynut57]

66. whew i thought we might lose the giant sea creature vote nt

[Evasporque]

67. best news story ever this close to Halloween...lol

[olddad56]

68. whatever it is, be careful, it has an eye out for you.

groan.

[randome]

71. That's not an eye at all. It's my third grade science project on the Earth's interior.

[steve2470]

72. "Somewhere a large sea creature is rockin' a barnacle-encrusted eyepatch and going, "Yarrrrr!"

saganaki
3:10 PM on October 11, 2012



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Softball-sized-eyeball-washes-up-on-Florida-beach-3940514.php#ixzz296e1fwDX

[KamaAina]

74. Rejoice! Sauron is defeated!

[KamaAina]

75. Slight quibble: The source appears to be the Orlando Sentinel

not the Sun-Sentinel, which, I believe, is the Fort Lauderdale paper.

Yup, I've got a pretty good eye for stuff like that.

[Emit]

76. I copied and pasted the source directly from the article

As follows: By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel

7:26 p.m. EDT, October 11, 2012

[KamaAina]

81. I might have known

The Orlando Sentinel is one of the worst RW cat box liners in the entire country. Ripping off articles from other papers is SOP there.

[randome]

83. LOL!

[fascisthunter]

78. Paul Ryan Blind Now?

[Duer 157099]

79. This thread is worthless without...

[fascisthunter]

82. amazing

[no_hypocrisy]

80. The Crawling Eye Returns!

[alphafemale]

84. omg! Has anyone seen Mila Kunis?

[Blue Owl]

85. Is it hairy and looking at the GOP?

n/t