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Caroline M. F. Durif

Researcher

Nov 26, 2025

15:10
Yeah.
15:10
So it's...
15:11
So the connection David is talking about between...
15:14
Th- there were these larvae that are called leptocephalus.
15:18
Lepto means leaf and cephalous means head.
15:21
So they look like leaf and they're, um, transparent, very fragile, and they were thought to be another species.
15:29
And then it was in the 1800s, two, uh, Italian scientists caught some leptocephalus larvae and put them in an aquarium, and they saw this metamorphosis into little glass eels.

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37:16
... spawning grounds?

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