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 ...

Electric eels might be the stuff of nightmares for some, but are they really electric – and do they have the power to give you a painful zap? We break down just watt makes these eels so shocking.

There have also been instances of drowning in shallow water after a person was incapacitated by a shock from an electric eel. So, it is clear that electric eels have formidable defensive ...

The electric eel, or Electrophorus electricus , is one of nature's most electrifying creatures. Native to the murky waters of South America, these fascinating animals are known for their ability ...

Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! It sends out electrical pulses to find food.

Electrical pulses from electric eels may cause little pores to open in the cells of nearby animals, allowing environmental DNA to enter their bodies.

Adult electric eels are virtually blind, since they develop cataracts when quite young, undoubtedly as a consequence of either their own electric shocks or those of their fellows.

So, electric eels are mouth-breathing, 2-meter-long living batteries that poop out of their “neck”, produce enough electricity to potentially kill a human if they wanted to, can lay 1,700 eggs ...

An electric eel can discharge 860 volts in a shock, which is apparently enough to open pores in the cell membranes of fish larvae and invite in new genes. The process, dubbed electroporation, is a ...

Life Electric eel zaps can genetically modify other nearby animals Scientists use electricity to make cells take up DNA – and the same process could happen in nature thanks to electric eels ...

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 ...