ChaBoiFletch t1_isfpmn4 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 5:04 PM

I saw a video explaining that no one knew where eels came from. Even Sigmund Freud dissected countless eels in an attempt to locate their reproductive organs, except he couldn’t find any. There was a theory that they came from the area in the ocean where the currents carry all the garbage that makes it’s way into the water. Unsure where that is in relation to the Sargasso Sea. It is true that people thought they spontaneously appeared, or were created with rainwater and mud. Strange water worms.

mrchaotica t1_ish7923 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 11:29 PM

> There was a theory that they came from the area in the ocean where the currents carry all the garbage that makes it’s way into the water. Unsure where that is in relation to the Sargasso Sea.

Exactly the same place, because sargassum is carried by currents the same way the garbage is.

ChaBoiFletch t1_isif7ef wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:50 AM

Interesting, I was just about hoping this was the case. Now to figure out the effects that the garbage has had on the eel ecosystem.