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Sunday, 31 January 2016

ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, January 31...

1930: The research ship Dana captures an apparent leptocephalus (eel larva, literally "slim head") off Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Its size astounds examiners, measuring 6 feet 1.5 inches long. The average leptocephalus for European eels measures three inches and metamorphoses into an adult roughly one meter long, suggesting to some that the adult form of what they dub Leptocephalus giganteus might exceed 400 feet in length. Others dismiss the notion, observing that leptocephali of various species grow at different rates. The preserved specimen presently resides at Copenhagen University's Zoological Museum. No other members of its species have been found to date.


The Dana Leptocephalus
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