The electric eel, with its thoroughly appropriate scientific name, Electrophorus electricus, can knock your socks off by delivering more than 600 volts. When one of these large eels sends out an ...

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.

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.

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, it was not a ...

Claim: Eelskin wallets demagnetize credit cards due to leftover charges from the electric eels used to make them. Status: False. Origins: This oddball belief has been kicking around at least since ...

Afterward the scientists fed a goldfish to an electric eel, prompting it to emit pulses of up to 185 volts in the tank. (Don't worry, the fish were given anesthesia.) ...

Electric eel zaps do more than just stun — they can alter the DNA of their victims, study suggests By tagging zebra fish with a fluorescent gene, scientists could track how electric eel jolts ...

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 ...

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 ...

The electric eel, with its thoroughly appropriate scientific name, Electrophorus electricus, can knock your socks off by delivering more than 600 volts. When one of these large eels sends out an ...