While some might describe a hagfish as 'repulsive,' 'disgusting' or, more poetically, 'Lovecraftian', we would have to strongly disagree. Hagfishes are excellent: they are part of the ocean's clean-up ...

The new research, "Biphasic burrowing in Atlantic hagfish" published June 17 in The Journal of Experimental Biology builds upon Fudge's previous work with hagfish. Until now, how hagfish create ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Atlantic Hagfish is an eel-shaped creature that releases a mass of slime when threatened. The slime is so good at holding water that scientists are now studying ...

The fish also had four or five “branchial slime pores,” according to the study, double what other species have. The roughly foot-long sea creature is a new species, and was na ...