Scientists Finally Figured Out How Eels Reproduce

I wish there were a better article than this

Here were some interesting details from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history

Because fishermen never caught anything they recognized as juvenile eels, the life cycle of the eel was long a mystery.

In 1777, the Italian Carlo Mondini located an eel’s ovaries and demonstrated that eels are a kind of fish.[1] In 1876, a young student in Austria, Sigmund Freud, dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration.

Larval eels — transparent, leaflike two-inch (five-cm) creatures of the open ocean — were not generally recognized as eels until 1893; instead, they were thought to be a separate species, Leptocephalus brevirostris (from the Greek leptocephalus meaning “thin- or flat-head"). In 1886, however, the French zoologist Yves Delage discovered the truth when he kept leptocephali alive in a laboratory tank in Roscoff until they matured into eels, and in 1896 Italian zoologist Giovanni Battista Grassi confirmed the finding when he observed the transformation of a leptocephalus into a round glass eel in the Mediterranean Sea. (He also observed that salt water was necessary to support the maturation process.) Although the connection between larval eels and adult eels is now well understood, the term “leptocephalus” is still used to refer to a larval eel.

Holy shit, that’s wild

“THESE ARE ALL GIRLS! GO GET MORE!” -Sigmund Freud

Pervert scientists. Tsk.

Oh man, I wonder what the author of The Book of Eels thinks. I remember thoroughly enjoying the book even though it ended without any conclusive idea where eels come from

Fuckin’?

What a complete waste of an article.

Until recently, nobody knew how eels reproduce. On August 14, 2021, TikTok user ColeTheScienceDude published a video named We Don’t Know Where Eels Come From.

Peak journalism.

After decades of speculation, researchers have successfully tracked European eels back to their breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea, following their journeys thousands of kilometers along one of nature’s most incredible animal migrations.

That shit has been known for years to decades and not only in scientific circles. Go ask your local fishermen if they know where eels breed. Theres a quite high chance they will tell you about the Sargasso sea.

The only good thing about this article is, that it provided the link ti The original Paper (dont know which it is exactly since u didnt have the time looking at it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19248-8

We finally know how babby formed!

Peak journalism: Summary of a Tiktok video and still manages to repeat itself.

Also - hasn’t this been known for a few years now?