Before he was shocked by a leaping electric eel, Kenneth Catania wasn’t sure what it would be like. In fact, no one was really sure. So, in the name of finding out exactly how much of a jolt the ...

This must be one of the more bizarre videos to accompany a scientific paper this year: an electric eel leaping out of a tank to shock a fake alligator head. The experiment, which demonstrates how ...

When prompted, however, electric eels can also serve up shocks powerful enough to incapacitate a horse. There’s a lot that makes the electric eel unique. And for centuries, scientists thought ...

“And it has a similar function,” he says, “in the sense that the shock is a very efficient deterrent.” Electric eels have three special organs capable of creating rapid-fire waves of ...

Kenneth Catania insists he was never in any real danger when he put his arm into a tank with an electric eel and let it shock him repeatedly for science. "Though maybe a bit dramatic ...

Watch up-close as we feed one of the world’s most powerful electric eels, capable of delivering shocks strong enough to stun ...

Never corner an electric eel– it might just leap out of the water and shock you. In the 19th century, German naturalist and archaeologist Alexander von Humboldt saw this firsthand in South ...

There's something inspiring about Electric Eel Shock's unabashed love for heavy metal. To the band, no song has ever topped Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." It was played twice during Electric Eel ...