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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A curled up hagfish on the sandy sea floor. At first glance, these primitive fish are striking thanks to their unusual appearance.

Scientists at the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University developed a novel way to observe the elusive burrowing behavior of hagfish. Dr. Douglas S Fudge and his team created a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hagfish© Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0) The post The 300-Million-Year-Old ‘Slime Monster’ That Can ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a novel way to observe the elusive burrowing behavior of hagfish. Scientists created a specialized tank of transparent gelatin in order to visualize how the hagfish behave ...