Most of us have probably used a 9-volt battery. They power small household items such as clocks, smoke detectors, and toys.

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.

Henner Damke/ Shutterstock Can electric eels leap out of the water to shock a predator? Water is a good conductor of electricity. This means that if a predator is shocked while fully submerged under ...

This alligator thought it had an easy meal—until it bit down on an electric eel! The shocking encounter left the predator ...

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 ...

Witness the incredible moment when an electric eel defends itself against a hungry ... teaching my two kids about money. They both have good jobs but still struggle to make ends meet — how ...

It’s 95 times the voltage of a 9-volt battery. That’s how much power an electric eel can produce. It’s hard to believe that any species would want to eat something capable of delivering such ...