The Truth About Electric Eels Has Long Been Overlooked. I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you. By Ed Yong. Volta's electric eel (L. Sousa) September 10, 2019. Share. Save.

The electric eel has long excited the popular imagination. But its biodiversity has been vastly underestimated, owing in part to the difficulty of catching and studying the creature, which can ...

The high voltage strike of an electric eel has long been regarded as one of the most powerful attacks in nature. But now one scientist has discovered that the nocturnal animals can also use their ...

The eel was able to deliver up to 40 or 50 milliamps at its farthest out of the water, with the height on his arm above the surface acting like a switch that could raise or lower the power.

Larry Gordon had a lump. Larry, 30, a leopard moray eel, was a staff and visitor favorite at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash.