A researcher who extracted the animal from the eel's body believes it's the first recorded instance of one found attached to ...

Found in the Amazon rivers, instead of biting or stinging their prey, these creatures release up to 600 volts of electricity.

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Electric eels are one of those creatures you hear about as a kid and assume must be exaggerated, but they’re […] ...

Visitors to an aquarium in central Japan have been admiring a Christmas tree that is lit up by electric eels. Toba Aquarium in Mie Prefecture has set up the roughly five-meter-tall tree beside a fish ...

Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

Electrical eels, or poraqués or temblones (Electrophorus spp. Gill, 1864), are highly feared animals in the Amazon, mainly because of their electric discharge of up to 860 volts. We report two cases ...

A British tourist was “nearly burnt alive” in his hotel room in Egypt when he got an electric shock which went through his fillings. Steve Ellis, 42, says he was on a ten night trip at the Coral Sea ...

Man is not the only animal which can produce electricity. No insect, no bird, no other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – The Akron Zoo said a ...

Researchers create an iontronic artificial skin that senses pressure, temperature, and current while learning patterns through built-in memory and computation. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Efforts to ...