For two and a half centuries the electric eel was treated as a single, well-known animal. A close look at more than a hundred specimens from across the Amazon split it into three species, and revealed that one of them can deliver a shock far stronger than any creature on record. The post One electric eel delivered an 860-volt shock, the highest ever measured from a living animal — and a 2019 study revealed it belongs to one of three separate species appeared first on Space Daily .