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Amazing transparent eel - 6/28/2011 8:29:33 PM

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http://www.wimp.com/transparenteel/

This amazes me!

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/28/2011 8:41:32 PM

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I suspect that it is a glass eel swimming thousands of kilometers on its way to The Netherlands to grow fat and long in our fresh waters. It is the first one that I have ever seen.

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/28/2011 8:43:48 PM

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My ex bro in law had some transparent fish that gave me the creeps bad. This is 1000 times creepier!

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/29/2011 4:57:43 AM

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where does it keep it's innards??

cool vid though

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/29/2011 5:05:29 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus

here's some snazzy info on leptocephalus eel larvae -- it's not a glass eel; that's a stage between the leptocephalus stage and juvenile. this one is a leptocephalus (like the video says), because it's still flattened.

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/29/2011 5:16:47 AM

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Thanks, Lilly! *smooch*

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RE: Amazing transparent eel - 6/29/2011 7:53:20 AM

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Thanks Lilly! Fascinating stuff.

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