Electric eels are something else. Snake-like fish, long and cylindrical, glide silently through murky, slow-moving waters.

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

Researchers uncover the physics behind snakes that rise nearly straight up and balance on narrow perches with surprising efficiency.

It's eleven hundred tributaries drain the greatest river basin on the planet,(an area of more than two million square miles), ...

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(Nanowerk News) Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic, while still powerful enough to support demanding technologies such as medical devices ...

Dor Tillinger and Wonbae Lee, two researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering, prepare a glass substrate with materials to fabricate a hydrogel-based power source. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — ...

An electric eel doesn’t bite first. It fires. Its body is packed with thousands of specialized electrocytes — biological cells stacked like batteries. When triggered, they discharge in perfect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of divers witnessed an exceptionally rare sight while exploring the waters of Indonesia: a ribbon eel rippling gracefully ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions of eggs before dying so their offspring can return home to rivers and streams. They’ve existed ...