Electric eels (Electrophorus spp. for Latin purists) are one of those fishes that pique the interest in biology of even the ...

A Powerful New Species of Electric Eel Electric eels belong to the naked-back knifefish family, or Gymnotidae. Although we refer to them as eels, they are more like carp and catfish than other eels.

The Akron Zoo said a difficult decision was recently made to humanely euthanize a 9-year-old electric eel.

“The eels! They were manifesting,” one Facebook commenter said. “I always wondered how they charged electric eels,” another said. Duluth is about a 155-mile drive northeast from Minneapolis.

This year, the European Union, Honduras, and Panama are proposing a CITES Appendix II listing for all eel species globally – ...