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The eel is a long, thin bony fish of the order Anguilliformes. The species has a catadromous life cycle, that is: at different stages of development migrating between inland waterways and the deep ocean. Because fishermen never caught anything they recognized as young eels, the Biological life cycle, life cycle of the eel was a mystery for a very long period of scientific history. Past studies of eels The European eel (''Anguilla anguilla'') was historically the one most familiar to Western scientists, beginning with Aristotle, who wrote the earliest known inquiry into the natural history of eels. He speculated that they were born of "earth worms", which he believed were formed of mud, growing from the "guts of wet soil" rather than through sexual reproduction. Many centuries passed before scientists were able to demonstrate that such spontaneous generation does not occur in nature. In 1777, the Italian Carlo Mondini located an eel's ovaries and demonstrated that eels are a kind ...
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