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Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 10-11-2012 | David Fleshler

Posted on 10/11/2012 3:37:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Huge eyeball from unknown creature washes ashore on Florida beach

By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel
October 11, 2012

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.

A man spotted the eyeball Wednesday and reported it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

"He was walking along the beach and found it and thought it looked like something cool," said Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the commission.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: marinebiology; mystery
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1 posted on 10/11/2012 3:37:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

That’s from IronMan’s chest.


2 posted on 10/11/2012 3:38:47 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: autumnraine

ping!


3 posted on 10/11/2012 3:38:49 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Is it slimy....like it was spit out??


4 posted on 10/11/2012 3:38:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Gotta see this.


5 posted on 10/11/2012 3:39:00 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: smoothsailing

It has to be a cyclops.


6 posted on 10/11/2012 3:39:22 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: smoothsailing

In mexico it would make a great taco.


7 posted on 10/11/2012 3:40:08 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: smoothsailing
Man, I love digging up my old favorites:


8 posted on 10/11/2012 3:41:03 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: smoothsailing

Cthulhu is going to be *pissed* that someone has one of his eyes.


9 posted on 10/11/2012 3:41:07 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: yarddog
It has to be a cyclops.

It is now.

10 posted on 10/11/2012 3:42:03 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: smoothsailing

It’s the sign of Bluebeard. Be careful....very careful...


11 posted on 10/11/2012 3:42:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: smoothsailing

Mullah Omar?


12 posted on 10/11/2012 3:43:04 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: smoothsailing

Mullah Omar’s other eye?


13 posted on 10/11/2012 3:43:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: smoothsailing

Is Big Sis wearing an eyepatch?


14 posted on 10/11/2012 3:43:23 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Rocky

Dangit.


15 posted on 10/11/2012 3:43:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: smoothsailing
Pompano Beach huh? So that's where I left that thing.
16 posted on 10/11/2012 3:44:21 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: yarddog

With you. It’s Polyphemus.

“No one has blinded me!”


17 posted on 10/11/2012 3:44:35 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: yarddog

Didn’t the group Cyclops sing the hit “I only have eye for you
“?


18 posted on 10/11/2012 3:44:38 PM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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19 posted on 10/11/2012 3:45:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: smoothsailing

And so now we have this large unknown creature swimming around out there - angry, in pain, and with severely limted depth perception...


20 posted on 10/11/2012 3:46:30 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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