Where?
Mystery solved!
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the ocean?
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Underwater at least; there are fresh water eels.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From the included article-
When it’s time to mate, eels are very determined to make it to their breeding site at the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea, a two-million-square-mile span of ocean, is the site in which all freshwater eels mate
It’s way the hell down there in the article, though. Apparently they travel to freshwater as larva.
Eels are freaking weird, man.
RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 11 months ago
“What’s a nibba gotta do to get some eel D!!!”
— Sam O’Nella
atocci@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As it turns out, eels don’t grow their testes until mating season, which is why Freud was unable to find them.
flicker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is absolutely wild! I’m so glad I saw this today.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Very interesting indeed! Thanks for sharing!
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes sense. It’s relatively warm; there’s a bunch of seaweed, and the waters are calm.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hank Green can tell you the full mystery:
youtu.be/acEIGorImGs?si=_xi2IF-GEssAuyZ-
tl:dw: We knew that’s where baby eels came from but we didn’t know how the adults got there or what the larvae looked like. Baby eel larvae was misidentified as another species and adult eel can take up to 18 months traveling at the bottom of the ocean to get there, during which time they grow their gonads which was another mystery.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
for anyone curious it got its name from the seaweed that grows there en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum