Shocking news: There are actually three species of electric eel in the Amazon, not one

Mongabay
Sep 13, 2019, 2:38 pm866 ptsInteresting
There are now three recognized species of electric eel after two new species were described to science in a paper published in Nature Communications this week. One of the new eel species is capable of generating a shock of as much as 860 volts, the most powerful electrical discharge ever discovered in any known…

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