A spokesperson for the agency says it is about the size of a softball. Her assumption is that the eye belongs to a bigeye thresher shark, who are prominently found in the moderately deep water off the Florida coast.
The eyeball is going to be delivered the a research lab in St. Petersburg to determine who this eyeball came from.
To tie this is to Biology...what do we think the researchers can do to determine the species this colossal eye came from? DNA testing? Comparing closely related species with this size of eye (which could have evolved from each other) Hopefully they will find out! Pretty fascinating discovery that would be impossible to solve without Biology, huh?
Meanwhile, people have made many guesses. Could it be a whale? a giant squid?
This eye ball thing kind of freaks me out a bit. Kyle May thinks it is an alien. I think it is a whale.
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