Researchers said they named the new species “cuulongensis” after the Vietnamese name “cửu long,” which means “nine dragons” ...

This is no way to do your own colonoscopy. Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.

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But how does their amazing ability work? Electric eels are long, cylindrical fish with flattened heads. Though they’re commonly called eels, they’re not Anguilliformes, which are ‘true’ eels. Instead, ...