In theory, if threatened, an electric eel could leap partway out of the water and deliver multiple electric shocks powerful enough to cause an adult person to have a heart attack or stop breathing.

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 ...

What makes the electric eel so famous though, is not its home or its size, but it’s terrifying ability to give ... The shock ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Biologist and neuroscientist Kenneth C. Catania conducted a study that shows electric eels leaping out of the water. But that's not the most interesting part!

In comparison, a power outlet can be as high as 10 or 20 amps, enough to kill to a person with prolonged contact. "The shock stuns the victim. It's sufficiently strong to help the fish capture prey or ...

Electric eels and fish were used by people in ancient times to treat headaches ... and realized that electricity could cause a shock or seizure as well as, and more easily than, chemicals.