Ol' Blue Eye: Mystery as giant peeper washes up on beach
I've got my eye on you ... the mysterious eyeball has baffled experts
Published: 12th October 2012
SCIENTISTS have been left scratching their heads after a giant eye washed up on a Florida beach.
The fleshy flotsam is the size of a large orange and was oozing blood when a member of the public plucked it off Pompano Beach, just north of Miami.
Gino Covacci said: "It was very, very fresh. It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag."
Gino sent the eyeball to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute to be tested.
Experts there have studied the mysterious peeper - but are no closer to figuring out what kind of creature it came from.
Prime suspects ... scientists say the most likely owners are a swordfish or a giant squid
A spokesman said: "Right now it sounds like a large fish is the leading candidate."
After he was shown pictures of the eye, Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center professor Charles Messing claimed the "most likely candidate was a swordfish".
But the professor admitted it could also belong to a giant squid.
I've got my eye on you ... the mysterious eyeball has baffled experts
Published: 12th October 2012
SCIENTISTS have been left scratching their heads after a giant eye washed up on a Florida beach.
The fleshy flotsam is the size of a large orange and was oozing blood when a member of the public plucked it off Pompano Beach, just north of Miami.
Gino Covacci said: "It was very, very fresh. It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag."
Gino sent the eyeball to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute to be tested.
Experts there have studied the mysterious peeper - but are no closer to figuring out what kind of creature it came from.
Prime suspects ... scientists say the most likely owners are a swordfish or a giant squid
After he was shown pictures of the eye, Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center professor Charles Messing claimed the "most likely candidate was a swordfish".
But the professor admitted it could also belong to a giant squid.
