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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He allowed a young electric eel to shock his forearm while he recorded the current. Catania reported the results of the experiment in the journal Current Biology on Thursday. Catania is no strange ...

In this episode, we uncover the insane biology of the electric eel, one of the only creatures on Earth that can generate electricity inside its own body. Native to the murky waters of South America’s ...