The glass eel.

Our eel, let's call it Eli,would begin as one of ten to twenty million tiny eggs,carried by a female eel,hatching into a transparent leaf-shaped thing that looks nothing like an adult eel.Eli starts to drift in ocean currents,predominantly the Gulf Stream towards either Europe or North America,depending on its particular species.Upon reaching the coast,Eli is about two inches long,looking more eely but still transparent,known at this stage as a glass eel.