The experiments described below address this question by taking advantage of the binary nature of the eel’s hunting behaviour. Eels emit the low-voltage weak output while searching and the high ...

Electric eels like Electrophorus voltai are especially fond of slow, shallow waters. “That’s prime real estate,” says Kory Evans, a fish biologist at Brown University. Image Credit ...

Locals on the remote Knoydart peninsula in the Highlands had a major power cut - because of a huge eel. The eel managed to jam the turbine which generates the electricity to 65 homes.

But it's the ability to generate electricity that is the eel's real party trick. It isn't the only fish that can do so, but the electric eel is the most powerful of all by a wide margin.

Most people think superpowers belong in comic books, but nature’s been handing them out for millions of years. Some animals ...

A recent email inquiring if an electric eel can kill a person jolted my memory and I recalled an encounter I wrote about several years ago. I was 11 years old, behind the scenes at the Fort Worth ...

And electric eels were one of the few potential sources ... Switek's article on how the outsized wolves featured on the show had real life counterparts in the Western Hemisphere up until about ...

Genetic data has revealed several distinct electric eel species living throughout South America, including the most shocking eel (and animal) discovered yet. Scientists have assumed that the electric ...