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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That makes sense. It's relatively warm; there's a bunch of seaweed, and the waters are calm.

Edit: Wait, how was this a mystery?

"The 1920–1922 Dana expeditions, led by Johannes Schmidt, determined that the European eel's breeding sites were in the Sargasso Sea."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

for anyone curious it got its name from the seaweed that grows there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum

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