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 ...

The eels are stun gun, battery and remote control wrapped into one snakelike animal. (Technically speaking, they're not true eels but a species of Amazonian fish called knifefish.) ...

The electric eel’s curious talents have drawn crowds at the Chattanooga, Tenn., aquarium this week as engineers and aquarium workers have found a way to harness Wattson’s natural electricity ...

While an electric eel discharge might not damage the MRI equipment, it could produce an artifact on the resulting image that renders the image useless. And nobody wants the handlers to be ...