Eleven-inch squid eye is largest on the planet

Scientists have found the largest animal eye on Earth measuring 11 inches across on a rare colossal squid.

Eleven-inch squid eye is largest on the planet

Scientists have found the largest animal eye on Earth measuring 11 inches across on a rare colossal squid.

One of the squid’s two eyes, with a lens as big as an orange, was found intact as the scientists examined the creature while it was slowly defrosted at New Zealand’s national museum where it has been preserved since being caught off Antarctica’s northern coast last year.

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