"This is a predator like the system’s never seen." Experts alarmed as harmful creatures spread in US waterways: 'The worst … ...

Scientists have identified two new species of electric eel and one of them is the most powerful yet. Electrophorus Voltai lives in the Amazon rainforest and can produce up to 860 volts of electricity.

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small ...

The Hades’ snake moray eel has found a niche for itself in a less common environment. Most other moray eels live in saltwater environments like oceans and coral reefs. This new species prefers ...

European Eel stocks have fallen by at least 90% since the 1970s. This may be due to natural changes, overfishing, pollution ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation “red list” in a move that may ...

The electric eel is the closest thing nature’s got to a living, breathing battery. Running up to eight feet in length, these serpentine swimmers (which actually aren’t true eels, but a type of ...

Anglers captured a previously unknown species of deep-sea eel off the coast of India, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Ichthyological Research When a group of deep-sea fishermen off ...

A rare and bizarre eel species uncovered during a tide pool exploration.

Most of us have probably used a 9-volt battery. They power small household items such as clocks, smoke detectors, and toys. Now think about what you could power with 860 volts. It’s 95 times the ...

An international research team has conducted a field survey on two species of eel native to Japan and other organisms that share the same habitat, revealing for the first time in the world that these ...