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

Under a historic agreement reached early this year involving tribes, local governments, environmental interests and water ...

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 ...

A group of divers witnessed an exceptionally rare sight while exploring the waters of Indonesia: a ribbon eel rippling gracefully through the water. Footage filmed on October 17 by Tjeerd Schone shows ...

Valuable eels are in decline all over the world, leading to a new push for restrictions on trade to try to help stave off extinction SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, ...

Eels have been a staple of European diets for millennia, from London’s jellied eels to Spanish angulas. But the world’s appetite is bringing them to the brink of extinction. European rivers once ...

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Of the thousands of different types of fish, only five can produce electricity. Best known of these is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a brownish-grey, snake-like creature that is not an ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...