European eels really take the plunge when they embark on their 5,000-kilometer migration to the Sargasso Sea. Data from eels outfitted with pop-up satellite tags suggest that the slender fish spend the daytime hours of the journey well below the surface, diving to cool depths between 200 and 1,000 meters, researchers report in the Sept.
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