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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

A new study finds that there are actually three species of electric eel [the-scientist.com].

For hundreds of years, scientists had thought there was just one species of Electrophorus, the electric eel, swimming through Amazonian waterways. Turns out, there’s three. And one of the newly described taxa delivers an electric discharge of 860 volts, “making it the strongest living bioelectricity generator,” the authors write in their report, published in Nature Communications [nature.com] today (September 10). 

Also at The Atlantic, The Truth About Electric Eels Has Long Been Overlooked. [theatlantic.com]

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