ChaBoiFletch
ChaBoiFletch t1_isfpmn4 wrote
Reply to Almost 100 years since being initially proposed, the location of adult European eels' breeding place (upon their 5-10,000 km migration across the Atlantic Ocean) has been demonstrated directly as the Sargasso Sea for the first time. by Litvi
I saw a video explaining that no one knew where eels came from. Even Sigmund Freud dissected countless eels in an attempt to locate their reproductive organs, except he couldn’t find any. There was a theory that they came from the area in the ocean where the currents carry all the garbage that makes it’s way into the water. Unsure where that is in relation to the Sargasso Sea. It is true that people thought they spontaneously appeared, or were created with rainwater and mud. Strange water worms.
ChaBoiFletch t1_isif7ef wrote
Reply to comment by mrchaotica in Almost 100 years since being initially proposed, the location of adult European eels' breeding place (upon their 5-10,000 km migration across the Atlantic Ocean) has been demonstrated directly as the Sargasso Sea for the first time. by Litvi
Interesting, I was just about hoping this was the case. Now to figure out the effects that the garbage has had on the eel ecosystem.