Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A French court on Thursday sentenced eight people to up to five years for smuggling eel larvae destined for Asian markets, in a ...

For centuries, eels have kept one of nature's most stubborn secrets. Scientists have chased answers through ancient folklore, dead ends in early experiments, and decades of missing evidence. Even with ...

The electric eel is an amazing animal that can unleash up to 860 volts of electricity. Scientists have now found that the eel's electric current can also lead to the uptake of genetic material by fish ...

Some scientific mysteries involve exotic, hard-to-reach subjects: distant stars, deep ocean trenches, particles too small to see. The mystery of the eel is not like that. Eels are ordinary. They live ...

The electric eel is the biggest power-making creature on Earth. It can release up to 860 volts, which is enough to run a machine. In a recent study, a research group from Nagoya University in Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somewhere in the rivers and lakes of Europe right now, there is an eel that has been sitting in the mud for twenty years, growing ...

The face of an electric eel. The massive electric organ in this species is made up of platelets of modified muscle fibers connected in series along the body. Each electroplate generates only 0.1 volt, ...

When scientists attempt to transfer genetic material into an organism, they often use an electric field, a technique called "electroporation," that makes cell walls more permeable. This sophisticated ...

Some 2,200 years ago Aristotle dignified the lowly eel by puzzling about the mystery of its life. Following him came scores of scientists who jousted with the problem with no success. All knew the ...