Electric eels are something else. Snake-like fish, long and cylindrical, glide silently through murky, slow-moving waters.

Which fish can generate electricity? Learn about the electric fish that produces electric shocks, how it generates electricity, where it lives and interesting facts about electric fish.

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 ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

Each electrocyte of the electric eel can generate 150 mV when stimulated, via ion transportation of K+ and Na+ through highly selective ion channels on cell membranes. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

A new study shows that the eels use it to exert a form of remote control over their victims, causing fish that may be hiding to twitch, thus exposing their location, or inducing involuntary muscle ...

Electric eels were long believed to be solitary predators, preferring to hunt and kill their prey alone by sneaking up on unsuspecting sleeping fish at night and shocking them into submission. But ...