These specialized muscle cells are generally larger than smooth ... That would be helpful considering the electric eel can be six or seven feet long, with most of its body being devoted to its ...

All its muscles contract and its body stiffens. It can’t escape; it can’t even move. Its attacker—an electric eel—moves in for the kill. The eel tops them all, not least because its ...

"The eel reaches in to the nervous system, in a sense, of their prey…causing the muscles to contract," Catania says. When stimulated by the eel's electric field, neurons in prey animals fire ...

When prey fights back, eels just — curl their tails. Muscle has evolved “into a battery” independently in two groups of fishes, explains Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

So I devised an experiment that took advantage of the eel’s insatiable appetite for earthworms. First, I placed a dead fish that still had working nerves and muscles in the water with the eel ...

Fluorescent protein from Japanese eel muscles used to detect bilirubin in newborns. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 07 / 160705092017.htm ...

Eels exposed to low levels of cocaine in their water become hyperactive and suffer muscle damage. The eels may struggle to complete their migrations as a result. The finding adds to the growing ...

Eel, also called unagi in Japanese cuisine ... cells to spontaneously form their natural composition of native fat and muscle. They grow as a three-dimensional tissue structure, just as in ...

These specialized muscle cells are generally larger than smooth ... That would be helpful considering the electric eel can be six or seven feet long, with most of its body being devoted to its ...