A man found this beaut while walking down the beach. Sidebar has link to swordfish; maybe someone figured it out.
Pretty weird object all by its lonesome.
My vote would be some sort of very large squid, but I’m far from an expert.
That actually isn’t that big for a squid eye, which can reach 20 inches in diameter (possibly larger), although it might be from a smaller species or juvenile.
I’m betting on billfish or tuna. No real reason, it just kind of looks that way.
Eye spy a duplicate threadhere.
Yay…finally, a national news story from South Florida that isn’t too embarrassing!
I’m going to savor this moment.
(The link is from an Orlando paper, but it’s from a story in South Florida.)
-D/a
A buck eye?
Probably a tuna fish. They sell them to eat here in Hokkaido. Bleh! Nothing like a styrofoam pack of big googly eyes looking up out of the chilled cabinet at you.
It should be relatively easy to tell whether it’s from a vertebrate (such as whale or fish) or a mollusk (such as squid). While their eyes are very similar in many ways, they have separate evolutionary origins, and so differ in some major structures (for instance, in vertebrates, the optic nerve connects to the front of the retina, while in mollusks, it connects to the back).