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Scientists Discover Most Shocking Electric Eel on Earth
Publicado em 11 setembro 2019
The 2.5-meter eel has been named Electrophorus voltai after Alessandro Volta, the Italian physicist who invented the first battery. This electric variety of the knifefish family can reportedly discharge an electric shock reaching as high as 860 volts, the most powerful of any animal known to modern science.
According to The New York Times, the discovery is a result of efforts by a team from the São Paulo Research Foundation comprising scientists from the Smithsonian Institute and [...]