Case file · Cryptid
The eels' secret in the Sargasso Sea
In 1922 Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt announced that European and American eels breed in the Sargasso Sea, ending a puzzle that had lasted since Aristotle, who thought eels arose from mud.
1922 CE · 26.00, -58.00 · status: explained
The account
Schmidt traced ever-smaller eel larvae across the Atlantic on cruises from 1904 to 1922. No one has yet seen adult eels spawning in the wild there.