Electric eels are remarkable, snake-like fish with the power to deliver electric shocks to defend themselves, hunt, navigate and even communicate with one another. But how does their amazing ability ...

What’s so weird about eel sex? For a very long time, we had no idea how eels made other eels. We suspected European species ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Biologist and neuroscientist Kenneth C. Catania conducted a study that shows electric eels leaping out of the water. But that's not the most interesting part!

For more than 250 years, scientists have known about the electric eel. But in a study released Tuesday, researchers revealed the discovery of two new species that could change our understanding of the ...

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

Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die. Although this final destination has long been ...

In a fascinating turn of nature, Amazon 's electric eels possess the remarkable ability to produce up to 860 volts of electricity—more than sufficient to power typical household devices.

Hundreds of elvers are being released into lakes as part of a plan to save the critically endangered European eel. Children from Bristol and Somerset have been rearing them in classrooms for an ...

It is our hope that through implementation of urgent measures and better management and protection in the future, we can enable long-term recovery and sustainable exploitation of European eel, but we ...