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Eyeball the size of a softball washes up on a Florida Beach

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:51 am Fri, Oct 12, 2012

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  • snagglepuss

    “Eyeball The Size Of A Softball” headline posted directly above a “Halloweeen Appetizers” ad.

    Nice.

    • awjt

      My ads are still on Yandy, displaying, aherm, other softball-sized things.

      • EH

        You must have visited the Yandy site.

  • Just_Ok

    Thatsa one sizey eyeball.
    It’s definitely from a see creature

    • Jan_Willem

       I sea what you did there.

    • EH

      I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFKifpMtlNs

    • sgtdoom

      Naaah, my Uncle Ralph lost his eyeball a few years back when he was boating in Florida.

  • Chuck

    IT SEES YOU!  THROW IT BACK IN THE OCEAN WHILE YOU STILL CAN! THE REST OF IT IS COMING!!!!!

    • acerplatanoides

       Does anyone have an Elder Sign?

  • Boundegar

    Wheatley.

    • Mantissa128

      Heh, he musta got fried up a bit on re-entry.

  • http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

    Obviously, the Kraken received a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas, and now his mother’s greatest fear has come to pass.

    • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

      When I was a kid I got one of those and my mother said, “You’re not going to be happy until you put someone’s eye out with that thing!” In defense of myself, I never did put out anyone’s eye. But to my mother’s credit, I never was truly happy.

      – I forgot who said that

      • DrDave

        Sounds like Jean Shepherd, probably from the stories that were the basis for the script of “A Christmas Story”.

  • http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

    This clearly calls for a modern-day Frankenstein to put together a composite creature out of all the stray body parts we find in the ocean. So far, we’ve got one enormous eyeball and about five or six left feet in running shoes – what else do we need?

    • Just_Ok

      a penisula

  • acerplatanoides

    Fool of a Took!

  • http://twitter.com/BWJones Bryan William Jones

    How could it take them that long to figure out what the eyeball came from?  6 muscle insertion points makes it from a mammal. If its a vascular retina, then its a mammal…  Its probably from a fish, like a marlin as a squid iris is less round.  Ship that eye up to some vision scientists… like us.  :-)

    • http://twitter.com/jeblucas Jeb Adams

       Oh Bryan, you and your “science” and “figuring things out” and “answering questions.” Can’t you see we are trying to call forth the Elder Gods? Ia! Ia!

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SUNJWG3QIJRT76A7F3HKDIFOXU Baz

      I think that’s what’s happening. There seems to be a waiting period though as the scientists who are asked to identify it might be very busy.

  • Michael A

    Swordfish. Biiiiiiig female. Anatomically wrong for a whale or collossal squid.

  • Just_Ok

    It could be from a seasquatch

  • Sigmund_Jung

    Thank god they found it. I’ve been looking for it for days. Please return as soon as possible.

  • ddh819

    what does it taste like?

  • http://redesigned.com redesigned

    huge eyeball = freaky.
    whatever ate thing huge eyeball came from = even freakier

    whenever i swim in the ocean i always think that human kicking legs make a great leviathan lure. :-)

  • Brainspore

    It’s all good. Hz’krath’öloch the Doomgazer has thousands more where that one came from.

  • peregrinus

    and that, kids, it’s why it’s a bad idea to take drugs from dealers in Miami.

  • welcomeabored

    After Mt. Doom exploded, that’s all that was left of the Eye of Mordor.

  • smut clyde

    According to the Standard Chart of Animal-eyeball / Sporting-code comparisons, softball eyeballs = Swordfish.
    Giant squid are basketballs; Colossal squid are soccer balls.
    Thus it is written in the prophecy.

  • timquinn

    Oh my, it’s a shrunken Resident head.

  • Daniel Griffin

    I’d bet a dollar it is a marlin eye, not a swordfish eye.  But the two are pretty similar.

  • Robert

    Ask it a question and then shake it.

  • Pres

    Hm. What animal has eyes that look like Mac G4 speakers? 
    http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3f/3f/a932024128a0ea5b9f93a010._AA280_.L.jpg

  • Gruff Guano

    My bet is, Marty Feldman received a sea burial, back in ’82.

  • Bob Webb

    Ew. Unicorn chaser?

  • http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

    Another failed Adrian Veidt creation

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    You caught my eye.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises

    Ah, yes, this seems quite familiar …

    While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day,
    I saw a great big wooden box a’floating in the bay.
    I pulled it in and opened it up and much to my surprise,
    Oh, I discovered a (clap – clap clap) right before my eyes.
    Oh, I discovered a (clap – clap clap) right before my eyes.

        — Phil Harris, “The Thing”