The homely hagfish might look like just your average bottom feeder, but it has a secret weapon: it can unleash a full liter of sticky slime in less than one second. That slime can clog the gills of a ...

At first glance, these primitive fish are striking thanks to their unusual appearance. With no fins or scales, these pinkish-gray fish look more like giant earthworms gone wrong with rows of frightful ...

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 ...

Scientists recently discovered a rare and important hagfish fossil that includes traces of preserved slime dating to 100 million years ago. Eyeless, jawless hagfish — still around today — are bizarre, ...

Hagfish are deep-sea eel-like creatures that, when attacked, produce a slime that explodes out to choke their assailant. The slime forms from a small amount of mucus that is ejected from the ...

When a hagfish is attacked by a shark, it spews out a defensive slime that clogs up the predator’s jaws, allowing the hagfish to escape. The slime rapidly expands in milliseconds, and now we know how.

Hagfish is the real name for what is commonly called slime eels and it could become a viable fishery with ready markets standing by. Little is known about hagfish in Alaska, although they are commonly ...

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 ...

Doug Fudge, a researcher from the University of Guelph working on the Isles of Shoals, thinks he’s found something beautiful in bottom-feeding hagfish. Researchers at Shoals Marine Laboratory on ...

Hagfish is the real name for what are commonly called slime eels, and it could become a viable fishery with ready markets standing by. Little is known about hagfish in Alaska, although they are ...

When threatened, ancient bottom-dwelling marine creatures known as hagfish can produce a milk-jug’s worth of gelatinous slime containing mucous and tens of thousands of protein threads. Researchers ...

Biologists have modeled the hagfish's gag-inducing defense mechanism mathematically. Hundreds of meters deep in the dark of the ocean, a shark glides toward what seems like a meal. It's kind of ugly, ...