You’re wading in a pond in the Amazon Rainforest when something slimy brushes against your leg. Then you feel another one.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In something straight out of a comic book, electric eels may be able to ...

The face of an electric eel. The massive electric organ in this species is made up of platelets of modified muscle fibers connected in series along the body. Each electroplate generates only 0.1 volt, ...

Electric eels are not actually eels, and some can discharge up to 860 volts. Even stranger: researchers have observed groups ...

When scientists attempt to transfer genetic material into an organism, they often use an electric field, a technique called "electroporation," that makes cell walls more permeable. This sophisticated ...

Sure, there’s Elf on the Shelf, but what has more holiday spirit than an eel in a tank? At least, one specific eel, anyway. Miguel Wattson, an electric eel living at Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, ...

Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South American knifefish—pack as much as an 860-volt punch used to stupefy prey and defend ...

Jan. 14 (UPI) --Electric eels, fish that use electric shocks to zap their prey, typically live solitary lives. But in an extraordinary find, scientists have for the first time observed electric eels ...

A crocodile locks its jaws around an electric eel, confident in one of the strongest bites in nature, and then something goes very wrong for the predator. What happens next reveals exactly why this ...

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Deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin, scientists led by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History fish research associate C. David de Santana discovered a small, river-fed lake filled ...