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 ...

Though they are well known parts of popular culture, electric eels remain something of a mystery to most of us. And there’s ...

Few creatures demand respect like the electric eel, and this feeding proved why. With every movement, raw voltage crackled through the water, making the moment feel both dangerous and insane. This ...

A researcher who extracted the animal from the eel's body believes it's the first recorded instance of one found attached to ...

Of the thousands of different types of fish, only five can produce electricity. Best known of these is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a brownish-grey, snake-like creature that is not an ...

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 ...