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The Evolution of Eels in the Sargasso Sea
All eels breed in the sargasso sea, and only there. No one has ever seen it happen. Aristotle had this crazy idea that somehow they were born out of mud. There's an explanation for that. The eel doesn't evolve their sexual organs until they are on the way to the sagasose in just the last year of its life. They might have already lived 50 years before they have developed sexual organs.
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