The Human Eels Relationship

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Patrick svensen is really fascinated by eels, so much so that he wrote an entire book about them. And his love affair began when he was quite young. In natural science, they even talk about the eel question as one of the hardest scientific questions to answer. We will be coming back to this fairy tale place, the sargasso se but that's a relatively recent stop in the story of the human eel relationship.

Where eels come from is a surprisingly difficult question to answer, in large part because scientists have never actually seen them reproduce in the wild. Gastropod explains why eels are somehow still so mysterious.

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