“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 ...

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.