Visitors to the Tennessee Aquarium may be shocked to learn that an electric eel named Miguel Wattson is lighting up a Christmas tree. A special system connected to Miguel’s tank enables his shocks to ...

Miguel Wattson, an electric eel that lives at the Tennessee Aquarium, is a multitasker. He eats. He tweets (more on that later). And for his most effortless trick this season, he lights up a Christmas ...

In the Amazing Amazon exhibit of the Great Lakes Aquarium lives the most festive and shocking resident- Loki the Electric Eel. His exhibit is set up in a way that senses electrical pulses- you’re able ...

Sparky the eel is helping a Utah aquarium power one of its Christmas trees Dec. 5, 2012— -- Forget lighting a Christmas tree the traditional way, with strings of lights plugged into the wall. The ...

An article shows that three species of electric eel exist, not just one as previously described, and that one of them produces an electric shock up to 860 volts. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are ...

A recent email inquiring if an electric eel can kill a person jolted my memory and I recalled an encounter I wrote about several years ago. I was 11 years old, behind the scenes at the Fort Worth Zoo ...