When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Moray eels have a second, hidden set of jaws that are the stuff of nightmares. These extra jaws ...

Electric eels, which slither along the muddy bottoms of ponds and streams in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins of South America, can cause a shock powerful enough to knock a horse off its feet.

While scuba diving in Palau, we came upon a 3-foot-long, speckled moray eel, and the divers with cameras lined up underwater to get a picture of it, while I just ignored the eel and kelp diving with ...

A snowflake moray eel peers out from its hiding spot. Bernard Spragg via Flickr under CC0 1.0 Researchers studying moray eels have discovered that these serpentine fishes have a freaky second set of ...

Moray eels can hunt on land, and footage from a recent study highlights how they accomplish this feat with a sneaky second set of jaws. By Sabrina Imbler In the video, forceps nudge a piece of squid ...

More than 200 years ago naturalist Alexander von Humboldt recounted seeing electric eels leaping out of the water to attack horses in the Amazon. The locals herded some 30 horses and mules into a ...