An electric eel doesn’t bite first. It fires. Its body is packed with thousands of specialized electrocytes — biological ...

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A recent email inquiring if an electric eel can kill a person jolted my memory and I recalled an encounter I wrote about several years ago. I was 11 years old, behind the scenes at the Fort Worth Zoo ...

Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! It sends out electrical pulses to find food. Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! Although it is called an eel, it is actually a relative of the catfish.

Most of us have probably used a 9-volt battery. They power small household items such as clocks, smoke detectors, and toys. Now think about what you could power with 860 volts. It’s 95 times the ...

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 ...