In something straight out of a comic book, electric eels may be able to shoot DNA into other animals when they zap them with electricity. The electric eel can release up to 860 volts of ...

Electric eels temporarily paralyze their prey by shocking them with electricity using a series of brief, ... "If you've got a dog and play with it, they get really excited.

Horses, dogs and humans would all be affected by such levels. There was no visible electric shock, just a transfer of currents. The experiment is both a show of an eel's force and a measure of reason.

The DNA showed that the electric eel is not one, but three distinct species that diverged from one another twice, first 7.1 million years ago and again 3.6 million years ago.

A study has found that an electric eel’s discharge is strong enough to transfer genetic material from the environment into the cells of nearby animals. The finding suggests that electric eels ...

Catania, K. Electric eels concentrate their electric field to induce involuntary fatigue in struggling prey. Current Biology , October 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.036 Cite This Page : ...

Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator. Nature Communications , 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z Cite This Page : ...

Electric eels can wield their zapping power in subtle and surprising ways. A new study finds that when dealing with struggling or hard-to-subdue prey, these eels bend their bodies into a horseshoe ...

Life Electric eel zaps can genetically modify other nearby animals. Scientists use electricity to make cells take up DNA – and the same process could happen in nature thanks to electric eels ...