It wasn't until the eighteenth century that some scientists in italy actually ond an eel with developed sexual organs, a female eel. So a female had been identified, but still, no one had ever seen eel testicls. And there were a fews searching. One of them is actually sigmund freud, who, as a young student, he was 19 years at the time when he was studying natural science. He took it on himself to solve this el question that has botthered the tists ar all the way since aristotle. The man who created a theory about castration complex and penis envy. It took practically another two thousand years for science
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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