October 12, 2012 in Nation\/World <\/p>\n
Freida Frisaro Associated Press <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
MIAMI (AP) Word that a giant eyeball washed up on a South Florida has created a buzz on the Internet and in the marine biologycommunity. <\/p>\n
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 theInternet. <\/p>\n
A beachgoer found it Wednesday in PompanoBeach. <\/p>\n
Bracken-Grissom says the lens and pupil are similar to the shape of a deep sea squids eye. She notes that the squids eyes can be as large as soccer balls and they easilydislodge. <\/p>\n
Florida wildlife officials have sent it to a research facility in St. Petersburg fortesting. <\/p>\n
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