These animals can grow 2m (6ft) in length and are more closely related to carp and catfish than eels. A specialised electric organ exists in each animal's body, which is made up of thousands of ...

Electric eels have three special organs that help them create electricity. These are known as the main organ, the Hunter’s organ and the Sach’s organ. These organs take up about 80% of the eel’s body ...

Electric eels appear similar to carp and catfish, however, their elongated bodies and tapered tails make their movement through the waters swift. Their body shapes help them in hunt and survive in ...

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 ...

In these clips, an electric eel in the lab attacks a dead fish attached to wire, which is shaken to simulate a struggle. The sounds represent the change in voltage level the eel is producing.

Elongated body shapes have evolved independently numerous times across the tree of life. Besides Anguilliformes, other clades with eel-like morphologies include: other types of fish, including hagfish ...