It’s no secret that electric eels stun their prey—accounts of such occurrences date back centuries. But unless you work security on the starship Enterprise, “stun” is a vague term. What really happens ...

The study challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior. Abigail Eisenstadt The Volta’s electric eel, Electrophorus voltai, emits the strongest shocks of any animal on Earth.

Researchers have discovered that electric eels can alter the genes of tiny fish larvae with their electric shock. Their findings help to better understand electroporation, a method by which genes can ...

Kenneth Catania knows just how much it hurts to be zapped by an electric eel. For the first time, the biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville has measured the strength of a defensive ...

Packing 860 volts, the newly discovered species “will not kill a healthy person.” Still, it has jolted scientists. By Emma Goldberg The average shock from an electric eel lasts about two-thousandths ...