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Tender Branson
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« on: October 14, 2012, 12:46:05 AM »



By Michael Muskal

Something out in the deep off the Florida coast is giving human beings the fish eye. Really.

It isn’t just the size of the big blue eyeball -- which easily fills two hands -- that's so disconcerting; it's the mystery behind the lost globe. Florida marine experts are investigating the eye in an attempt to learn just what kind of creature spawned it.

“I saw it with my own eye, and it is bigger than a baseball -- about the size of a softball,” Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Carli Segelson said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. “It is a very pretty eye.”

The orb was found on Wednesday by Gino Covacci, who was taking his usual stroll along the sand at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He told the Sun Sentinel that he saw it lying at the high tide line and kicked it over, only to be staring at something that, well, stared back.

Covacci said he put the eye in a plastic bag and popped it into the fridge when he got home.

“It was very, very fresh,” he told the newspaper, noting that it still had blood on it when he put it in the bag.

Covacci contacted police, who passed him to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The agency is preserving the eye and planning to send it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg for further study, Segelson said.

The color of Ol’ Blue Eye may hold the key to eventually identifying the creature from whence it came.

“I understand certain species of fish have coloring like that,” Segelson said.

Officials have ruled out squid and octopus because there “there seems to be some bones around the eye,” and those creatures are invertebrates, she said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-huge-eyeball-sea-creature-20121012,0,3387078.story

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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 12:51:01 AM »

The end of the world is near ! Only 2 months to go !

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No seriously: It could be a new species created from the BP oil spill.

Call it "Blue-eyed Deep Sea Oil Nazi creature" or something ... Wink
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 01:08:27 AM »

Probably a swordfish. Nothing special.
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 01:45:08 AM »

Saw it on Tumblr earlier

it's probably Cthulu nbd
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2012, 02:00:26 AM »

It's the unknown abomination of the abyss that was responsible for this, o/c.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2012, 02:36:57 AM »

How would it taste if it's cooked?
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2012, 06:56:21 AM »

Ah, there it is. I'd been wondering where I'd put it.
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2012, 09:07:47 AM »

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2012, 01:21:04 PM »

Probably a swordfish. Nothing special.

Yup.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-blue-eyeball-swordfish-20121015,0,626368.story
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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2012, 11:38:21 PM »

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the Pacific Ocean is quite literally vomiting all over northern California.
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