Sentences with phrase «electric eels»

A new battery made of fleshy hydrogel layers generates and stores power like electric eels do.

That changes when he is electrocuted in a vat of electric eels and turns into the electricity - eating - and - controlling Electro, who wants to kill Spider - Man because he's taking away attention from his own freakishness.

A giant Pacific octopus changes color, groupers lurk, and electric eels generate electricity.

The nearly four - foot - long electric eel draws a crowd, particularly in December, when it causes the lights on a nearby Christmas tree to twinkle.

A researcher reveals the shocking truth about electric eels.

In 2017, Huanca takes part in the group exhibition Jaguars and Electric Eels at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin and will have a solo exhibition at Travesia Cuatro, Madrid.

Darkstalkers Resurrection — Because sometimes you need more freaks than the jungle guy who learned from electric eels how to shock people.

«There's virtually no evidence of what electric eels actually eat.

When electric eels feel threatened by a large, land - based predator, they can leap out of the water in a high - voltage attack to ward off the invader, Kenneth Catania, a biologist a Vanderbilt University in Nashville, reports June 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But then Catania witnessed something odd while working with electric eels: When he reached into his eels» cage with a large net that had a metallic rim and handle (he was wearing gloves), the eels would attack the net.

Certainly a number of people who had studied electric eels had said this seems exaggerated or this seems crazy.

IT»S ELECTRIC A new type of energy source made with hydrogel disks (shown) works a lot like the power - producing organs inside electric eels.

Humboldt had hired a group of local fishermen to collect electric eels for his research on the animals.

Electric eels use electric current to navigate, communicate and hunt for small prey.

This turnaround features a pair of attacking electric eels armed with a shield of voltage and a spiked hazard.

Plus, «This would basically give you a starting point to figure out what would go on with large electric eels in the Amazon.»

Electric eels stack thousands of tiny cell plates together in their tails to deal powerful electric shocks to their prey.

The way electric eels have been described by biologists in the past has been fairly primitive, says Jason Gallant, a biologist who heads the Michigan State University Electric Fish Lab in East Lansing who was not involved in the study.

But that didn't stop Philip Stoddard, a zoologist at Florida International University in Miami, from petting his pet electric eel Sparky.

«Electric eels likely use an aggressive attack to defend themselves because they often can not retreat,» Catania writes.

In «Electric eels provide a zap of inspiration for a new kind of power source» (SN: 1/20/18, p. 13), voltage was incorrectly described as a measure of energy.

These artificial electric eel organs are made up of water - based polymer mixes called hydrogels.

The big electric eels might qualify as monsters.

And then there's a dry season when many fish including electric eels are caught in small pools and drying up streams and in fact their air breathers potentially to be specialized for those kinds of environments.

When he's not training electric eels or organizing anacondas, Dowd is working to promote a project he helped found shortly after that Amazon expedition.

In the 1800s, renowned explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt observed a bizarre incident in the Amazon: he saw electric eels leaping into the air and shocking two horses.

But Humbolt was vindicated last year, when Catania published a study showing that electric eels indeed jump in the air to jolt potential predators.

Submerged electric eels lose current to water, so they apparently leap into the air to minimize their contact with water and maximize their shock value.

A story this past June described the shocking — and unexpected — ways that electric eels find their next meal.

When Dillon accidentally falls into a tub of genetically engineered electric eels, he transforms in to Electro, who has the power to control electricity.

A giant electric eel boots the possibilities for spectacle during the story's underwater climax.

Having said that, this diesel knocks away like a woodpecker quartet when cold, the running characteristics are still more electric eel than pussycat, and when pushed hard the voice becomes loud and croaky.

Electric eels trap pools with sinking platforms, giant dinosaurs stampede in pursuit of Crash as he leaps lava pools, and there's still the horribly tense Lights Out where platforms plummet from under your feet as you speed through each section before being plunged into darkness.

Donna Huanca Jaguars and Electric Eels Installation View February 5 - November 26, 2017 Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin

The Jaguars And Electric Eels group exhibition is on at Düsseldorf's Julia Stoschek Collection, having opened February 5 and running to November 26, 2017.

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Extrapolating from his experience with a small eel, Catania estimates that a human struck on the trunk by a larger, 1.8 - meter - long electric eel might endure a current of 0.24 amperes, or 63 watts of power.

In 2017, Huanca takes part in the group exhibition Jaguars and Electric Eels at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin and currently has a solo exhibition at Travesia Cuatro, Madrid.

But electric eels don't actually double the amount of electricity they produce when they go after large prey; they just direct the charges from both ends of their bodies to one specific area, which makes the charge feel more powerful to unfortunate prey items.

In the movie, it is explained Dr. Frankenstein got the electricity to create his monster from electric eels.

New power sources bear a shocking resemblance to the electricity - making organs inside electric eels.

The ability of electric eels to shock their prey with a 600 - volt blast is well known, but exactly how the fish orchestrate their attacks has remained a question as murky as the waters they hunt in.

According to research published earlier this month in the journal Advanced Materials, scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have engineered a new fiber based on an electric eel's ability to stun almost anything that approaches it.