The electric eel gets its name from its shocking abilities! Special organs in the eel’s body release powerful electric ...

The face of an electric eel. The massive electric organ in this species is made up of platelets of modified muscle fibers connected in series along the body. Each electroplate generates only 0.1 volt, ...

The animal kingdom gets stranger the closer anyone looks. The video runs through claims ranging from three-hearted octopuses ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. At first glance, the electric eel’s abilities feel ...

At the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, five eels live in the Amazon Rising habitat, where probes in the water sense their electricity and transmit their energy to a lightbar and a speaker. At any given ...

Eversince childhood, we have been taught about the unique nature of eels, as those fish that produce electricity. But have you ever thought how this fish doesn't get an electric shock itself? Nature ...

Fish with exotic powers have long captured the imagination. Alessandro Volta noted striking similarity between electric fish and the voltaic piles from which he made the first effective battery.