Scientists are gushing with excitement because this is the first direct evidence of a long-suspected part of the eels' life cycle that was proposed almost 100 years ago.

Until now, no eggs or eels had been found in the North Atlantic Ocean's Sargasso Sea confirming this truly is where eels gather to breed.

"Eels have piqued the curiosity of scientists for millennia," study author and fish biologist Kim Aarestrup of the Technical University of Denmark said on Twitter.