(CN) - A researcher is stunned by the ways the Amazon's electric eel uses its voltage, doubling it when needed and repeating the jolts 20 times faster than a Taser can, the National Science Foundation ...

Scientists have identified two new species of electric eel and one of them is the most powerful yet. Electrophorus Voltai lives in the Amazon rainforest and can produce up to 860 volts of electricity.

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A mostly nocturnal species found in freshwater habitats in Mexico and South America, the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) belongs to the knifefish family and is more closely related to catfish ...

Note to editors: Multimedia, including videos and photos of electric eels hunting, can be found via Dropbox here (password: eels). Deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin, scientists led by the ...

A new species of electric eel with the most powerful shock of any animal ever discovered has been found in the Amazon. The creature is one of three species now confirmed to exist—for the last 250 ...

AMAZON RIVER - Researchers have discovered two new species of electric eels in South America, on of which can deliver a bigger jolt of electricity than any other known animal. Researchers collected ...

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, ...