As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian physicist ...

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 ...

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Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South American knifefish—pack as much as an 860-volt punch used to stupefy prey and defend ...

Electric eels shocking their prey as a group in a coordinated hunting effort. A team of scientists describe this novel behavior in the Jan. 14, 2021, issue of the journal Ecology and Evolution. The ...

Jan. 14 (UPI) --Electric eels, fish that use electric shocks to zap their prey, typically live solitary lives. But in an extraordinary find, scientists have for the first time observed electric eels ...

In August 2012, Douglas Bastos, then a graduate student at Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, was exploring a remote waterway in the Amazon rainforest when he came across a small ...

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, ...

One Volta’s electric eel — able to subdue small fish with an 860-volt jolt — is scary enough. Now imagine over 100 eels swirling about, unleashing coordinated electric attacks. “This is hugely ...

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 ...