“Electric eels are like living batteries,” explains Dr Rupert Collins, Senior Curator of Fishes at the Natural History Museum, London. “They have stacks of modified muscle cells called ...

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 ...

The new eel was discovered by accident. Three researchers from National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, Western Philippines University, and Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History ...

But lamprey are quite a bit "less attractive" in most people's eyes and so their story is often unappreciated. Some people call them "eels", but they have nothing in common with anguillid fishes such ...