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.

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.

The humble hagfish produces a sticky slime to defend itself from predators, as well as to hunt for its own food. Now a team of Swiss scientists has figured out the physics behind how the hagfish can ...

Many animals, including humans, rely on their eyes to detect changes in their surroundings. The eyes of vertebrates, animals with a backbone or a similar supporting structure, contain a transparent ...

Hagfish are also known as slime eels, thought they are not eels. They belong to the class Agnatha, fish without jaws. There are an estimated 76 species of hagfish, which live in cold waters around the ...

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 ...