MIAMI (AP) - Word that a giant eyeball washed up on a South
Florida has created a buzz on the Internet and in the marine
biology community. An assistant biology professor at Florida
International University in Miami on Friday said the blue
eyeball may have come from a deep sea squid or a large
swordfish. Heather Bracken-Grissom says she started discussing
the eyeball with her colleagues as soon as they saw the pictures
on the Internet. A beachgoer found it Wednesday in Pompano
Beach. Bracken-Grissom says the lens and pupil are similar to
the shape of a deep sea squid's eye. She notes that the squid's
eyes can be as large as soccer balls and they easily dislodge.
Florida wildlife officials have sent it to a research facility
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