When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by our partner, ScienceNordic. Down in the dark, with the mud and the dead fish, lives a quiet eel-like creature called the hagfish, also known as the slime ...

Hagfish are simple, tubelike scavengers with gruesome feeding habits: When the ugly predator encounters a carcass on the seafloor, it burrows into the body cavity of the dead or dying animal. There it ...

When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up ...

Hagfish are strange creatures that live in the ocean. They look kind of like an eel – long and slithery. Although they have a skull, hagfish have no backbone or jaw. Three-hundred-million-year-old ...

What does it take to survive on Earth for 300 million years? The secret might just be the ability to ooze slime from your pores. The defense tactic has worked for the hagfish, an eel-like animal that ...

At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish, ...

Animals are awesome. But which is the ultimate champion? Over the next seven weeks, we’ll be pitting some of nature’s most remarkable creatures against one another in a series of virtual battles. Two ...

Hagfish are jawless, eel-like creatures that are known to spray huge quantities of goo when attacked. Now, scientists have found another defense mechanism that protects these slimy monsters: their ...

The unusual secretions of the Atlantic hagfish are being studied by scientists who want to harness the viscous and elastic properties of the creature's slime for human use. When attacked or threatened ...