An American Eel was recently caught in the Chicago River, raising eyebrows and questions as to how the animal made its way to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greenlee looks at a gyotaku print of an eel by Bruce Koike Encounter an eel nowadays, and it’s likely in a sushi roll. Or maybe in ...

Electrophorus voltai, a newly discovered species of electric eel, pictured swimming in the Xingu River, a southern tributary of the Amazon. L. Sousa Electric eels are hard to miss. They’re eight feet ...

Man is not the only animal which can produce electricity. No insect, no bird, no other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel ...

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 ...

There are at least three species of electric eels (Electrophorus spp.), not just one as previously believed. Two new species have recently been described with São Paulo Research Foundation—FAPESP's ...