"What are those things?" a man asked, pointing to a hanging decoration I made from some plastic junk I found on the beach. "I see them in the sand all the time, but I can’t think what they’re for." ...

Hagfish have been swimming in the oceans for 300 million years, and there are 77 species spread all over the world. The hagfish looks like an easy meal. Its sinuous, eel-like body has no obvious ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The origin of all living vertebrates just got more mysterious. Since the 1970s, many evolutionary biologists have considered an eel-like, deep-sea-dwelling creature called the hagfish to be the ...

LOS ANGELES — By most accounts, hagfish are repulsive bottom feeders that slime their predators, have rows of teeth on their tongues and feed on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any orifice.

Scientists have now figured out the recipe for what might be the most repulsive slime this side of a movie screen; the goo released by annoyed hagfish. Too bad knowing the recipe isn’t enough to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Hagfish are deep-sea eel-like creatures that, when attacked, produce a slime that explodes out to choke their assailant.

The Navy wants a reliable way to stop small boats without opening fire on them, inadvertently causing injuries or even death. Hagfish secrete a defensive slime that instantly blows up in size, ...

Hagfish are a bit like underwater Spidermen. When they're attacked by a predator, they shoot out a slimy substance that can seal the mouth and clog the gills of said attacker, so they can make an ...