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SCIENTISTS have been left scratching their heads after a giant eye washed up on a Florida beach.
The fleshy flotsam is the size of a large orange and was oozing blood when a member of the public plucked it off Pompano Beach, just north of Miami.
Gino Covacci said: "It was very, very fresh. It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag."
Gino sent the eyeball to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute to be tested.
Experts there have studied the mysterious peeper - but are no closer to figuring out what kind of creature it came from.
The fleshy flotsam is the size of a large orange and was oozing blood when a member of the public plucked it off Pompano Beach, just north of Miami.
Gino Covacci said: "It was very, very fresh. It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag."
Gino sent the eyeball to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute to be tested.
Experts there have studied the mysterious peeper - but are no closer to figuring out what kind of creature it came from.
A spokesman said: "Right now it sounds like a large fish is the leading candidate."
After he was shown pictures of the eye, Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center professor Charles Messing claimed the "most likely candidate was a swordfish".
But the professor admitted it could also belong to a giant squid.
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After he was shown pictures of the eye, Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center professor Charles Messing claimed the "most likely candidate was a swordfish".
But the professor admitted it could also belong to a giant squid.
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