You might call electrical eels the Tasers of the Amazon. A study in Science Thursday found that the Electrophorus electricus from South America sends out a burst of high-voltage pulses that ...

Biologists discovered one species of electric eel, Electrophorus electricus, should really be classified as three, based on environmental data, morphology, discharge voltage and the creatures’ DNA.

The only species of electric eel previously known to science was Electrophorus electricus, which Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus described in 1766. De Santana and his colleagues believe the two ...

Since the mid-1700s, the scientific community has understood there to be only one species of electric eel — Electrophorus electricus, first described by botanist Carl Linnaeus — but findings ...