The humble hagfish is an ugly, gray, eel-like creature best known for its ability to unleash a cloud of sticky slime onto unsuspecting predators, clogging the gills and suffocating said predators.

A study by a group of researchers at the University of Kentucky in collaboration with scientists in four other countries has been published in Nature. Their study is titled "The hagfish genome and the ...

You don’t need to have ever seen a hagfish to have an idea of a hagfish. I mean, it’s called a hagfish for crying out loud. The reality of this creature is more or less exactly what you probably ...

In the cold, dark recesses of ocean floors around the world, hagfish slither around like sea snakes, searching for food. When a hagfish finds a suitable carcass, it devours the dead fish in two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hagfish are undoubtedly weird. Sometimes called slime eels, they aren’t actually eels. They are fish but have no scales or fins.

Meet the humble hagfish, an ugly, gray, eel-like creature affectionately known as a “snot snake” because of its unique defense mechanism. The hagfish can unleash a full liter of sticky slime from ...

Slimy hagfish dwell at the bottom of the sea, scavenging for carcasses and thriving in the depths where little oxygen can be found. They have a unique ability; their hearts can continue to beat in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hagfish© Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hagfish slime is a rapid-deploy chemical defense that can clog a shark’s gills in seconds.