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 ...

Forget Hooked on Phonics; Japanese rock trio Electric Eel Shock claims to have learned English by listening to Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Song titles like "I Love Fish but Fish Hate Me" and ...

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

A 6-foot-long electric eel is basically a 6-inch fish attached to a 5-1/2-foot cattle prod, researchers say. The long tail is packed with special cells that pump electricity without shocking the fish.

The electric eel, with its thoroughly appropriate scientific name, Electrophorus electricus, can knock your socks off by delivering more than 600 volts.

Pain might be the first thing you associate with a shock from an electric eel, but it turns out there could be more to it than that. A new study has found that electric eels can discharge enough ...

Electric Eel Shock ‘s tour with Hot Cha Cha came to an end with a raucous show at Cake Shop on March 25th featuring Hard Nips, The Vandellas, and Musuki Aruvavo Lee.

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

We’ve seen mocktails, Baracktails, and now: “shocktails.” Haru’s director of operations and mixologist, Keith Dusko, is pairing a new drink, the Electric Eel, with so-called Sechuan ...

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 ...