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A giant eyeball washes up on a Florida beach.

A Florida man found a massive eyeball washed up on the beach Wednesday, The Sun Sentinel reports. Gino Covacci saw the giant ball-shaped object at the high tide line while taking a walk along the beach.

The beachcomber says he typically finds cigarette butts and other odds and ends on the beach but nothing like the massive eyeball that stared up at him from the sand. The man picked up the eyeball and placed it in a plastic bag so he could refrigerate it.

“It was very, very fresh,” Mr. Covacci told the newspaper Thursday. “It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag.”

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) confirmed the story on their Facebook page. “The FWC Tequesta Field Lab received a call that a citizen from Pompano Beach found what appeared to be a giant eye. Our staff in South Florida picked it up and placed it on ice. It will be sent for possible identification,” the commission wrote.

Eventually, FWC spokeswoman Carli Segelson notes, the eyeball will be sent for analysis to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.

The commission posted a photo of the giant eyeball to their Facebook page, along with the caption: “Perfect timing for Halloween: ‘The Mystery Eyeball.’”

Now the question becomes, what type of animal has lost an eyeball? For now, FWC officials cannot say exactly what species the giant eyeball came from.

However, petethomasoutdoors.com did some digging and may have come up with an answer. They asked George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History to try and identify the origin of the massive eyeball. The shark expert believes that the eyeball belonged to a bigeye thresher shark.

“My guess is that a fisher did a bit of dissection at sea then was reminded it was illegal to possess even ‘parts,’” Mr. Burgess told the web site in an email Thursday.

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, bigeye thresher sharks are found in warm regions, where they occasionally enter shallow waters but tend to stay out in the open sea. The average adult bigeye thresher is 11-13 feet long and weighs 350 pounds.

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