Sweden 'mourns' its oldest eel

                              

Swedes mourn today at the passing of "the world's oldest European eel", which died in a well at the age of 155.

It was found dead in the southern town of Brantevik when the well owners removed the lid to show it off to visitors, The Local said on Friday.

A boy dropped it in back in 1859, the same time Napoleon III was on the throne in France, when it was apparently common to use eels for keeping well water free of insects.

Wow! a small fish can be older than us..