Mystery solved!

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That makes sense. It’s relatively warm; there’s a bunch of seaweed, and the waters are calm.

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  • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    for anyone curious it got its name from the seaweed that grows there en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum

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• tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where?

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  • powerofm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sargasso Sea

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What, every eel in the world?

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the ocean?

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Underwater at least; there are fresh water eels.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “What’s a nibba gotta do to get some eel D!!!”

  — Sam O’Nella

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  • atocci@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As it turns out, eels don’t grow their testes until mating season, which is why Freud was unable to find them.

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• flicker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is absolutely wild! I’m so glad I saw this today.

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Very interesting indeed! Thanks for sharing!

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