“Electric eels can leap out of the water and attach the most positively charged part of their body – their chin – to the predator. With their negative pole still in the water, this creates a powerful ...

A Shocking Adaptation Electric eels are not actually eels at all; they are a type of knifefish and belong to the gymnotiform family. Despite their name, electric eels can grow up to 8 feet long ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Vanderbilt University researchers confirmed a 200 year-old story that electric eels can shock a horse to death just by jumping out of water. The higher the eel ...

Do 'electric eels', as the name suggests, can actually produce electricity? The science involving these aquatic hunters has made many people curious as some have tried to understand if this ...

In these clips, an electric eel in the lab attacks a dead fish attached to wire, which is shaken to simulate a struggle. The sounds represent the change in voltage level the eel is producing.