Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! It sends out electrical pulses to find food.

Weakly electric fish species use low-voltage to sense their surroundings, whereas a few strongly electric species use high-voltage as a weapon. Here the author shows that electric eels cross this ...

Electric eels appear similar to carp and catfish and can generate nearly 600 volts of electricity, which can also hurt humans if they receive a shock ...

Electric eel zaps do more than just stun — they can alter the DNA of their victims, study suggests By tagging zebra fish with a fluorescent gene, scientists could track how electric eel jolts ...

Sort of like an electric-fence sensation a few times." In the journal Current Biology, he says this small eel delivered a current that peaked at around 50 milliamps.