If we said &#8220;name the weirdest, most mystical & inexplicable creature on earth&#8221; you would rightly say &#8220;80s English footballer Peter Beardsley&#8221;. But pause for a moment to consider instead the &#8216;umble eel, a fish(ish) so unknown and unknowable that no human has observed one shagging in the wild. In fact no-one&#8217;s totally sure that they even DO shag in the wild. A bit like Peter Beardsley.
It&#8217;s an astonishing tale, the eel&#8217;s, at the heart of which is a simple question that&#8217;s confounded thinkers big and small for centuries: where do eels come from? Mad cap attempts to find out have been almost as wild as the fact that people like eating the poor sods in a &#8216;jelly&#8217; of their own skin and sweat.
We delve into the deliciously, reassuringly bonkers story of the eel and its origins, a story that in October 2022 partially revealed itself to modern science. Which doesn&#8217;t strike us as a necessarily good thing.
Enjoy <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEmilyFinch/status/1582299378655850499">Dr Emily Finch&#8217;s twitter thread</a> that prompted this episode, and then read <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-come-from">Brooke Jarvis&#8217; superlative New Yorker article</a> from 2021.
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