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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All wild theorizing aside, the real culprit is often the magnetic ... the "eelskin" used in fashion accessories doesn't come from the electric eel but rather the Pacific hagfish, also known ...

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 ...

But he thinks that tweaking the hydrogel setup to more closely imitate a real eel electric organ — like by printing thinner gels — could give these energy sources more oomph. Mayer also wants ...

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.