An curved arrow pointing right. Vanderbilt University researchers confirmed a 200 year-old story that electric eels can shock a horse to death just by jumping out of water. The higher the eel ...

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 ...

That’s how much power an electric eel can produce. It’s hard to believe that any species would want to eat something capable of delivering such a potent shock. However, caimans, members of the ...

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Opossum uses its defense mechanism of 'playing dead' when it feels threatened. It collapses, emits a foul odour, and becomes ...

Changes in ocean currents stemming from global warming have led to a sharp increase in endangered Japanese eel larvae reaching rivers in Hokkaido in recent years, a scientific team found.