Researchers at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified two new species of electric eel in the Amazon rainforest, tripling the known number of electric eel species.

Smithsonian scientist David de Santana discovered two new species of electric eels in the Amazon rainforest. Bailey Bedford South American rivers are home to at least three different species of ...

The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

"In spite of all human impact on the Amazon rainforest in the last 50 years, we can still discover giant fishes like the two new species of electric eels," said lead researcher C. David de Santana ...

More than 200 years after the electric eel inspired the design of the first battery, it has been discovered that they can co-ordinate their "zaps". Researchers working in the Amazon filmed eels ...

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In 2012, students led by C. David de Santana discovered a lake deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin filled with more than a hundred electric eels, many well over a metre long. The researchers ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to one-tenth of the animal species in the world, according to some scientists. Jaguars, sloths, caimans, howler monkeys, capybaras, pink river dolphins, macaws, anacondas ...