A Pacific hagfish hides under a rock. Image via Wikimedia Commons/Stan Shebs 5. Although they are jawless, hagfish have two rows of tooth-like structures made of keratin that they use to burrow ...

The culprit? Hagfish, deep-sea scavengers that look a bit like eels and are capable of generating massive amounts of anti-predator mucus at a moment’s notice. The Pacific Northwest is home to ...

This incredible ability was made clear during a 2017 traffic accident, when a truck full of hagfish that was en route to South Korea — where hagfish are considered a delicacy — overturned on ...

Hagfish shoot slime that clogs gills and deters predators. Learn how they do it, why it's important, and how it could help humans too.

It turns out, the creatures are not, in fact, eels. They’re Pacific hagfish — primitive jawless fish that are sometimes called slime eels for the mind-boggling quantities of goo they produce ...

But low mucin concentration means that in total a hagfish can make an amount of slime equal to 400 times their own volume - for example, a Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) could make about 24 ...

The Pacific hagfish is the only vertebrate that can obey the cardinal rule of the dinner table: don’t eat with your mouth open. Uniquely among the 50,000 vertebrate species alive today ...

The study, "Vertebrate features revealed in the rudimentary eye of the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)," was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Dr. Ryan Kincer demonstrates the elasticity of the authentic Pacific hagfish slime aboard Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Nov. 29, 2016. U.S. Navy photo by Ron Newsome ...

He and colleagues have tested how hard it is to puncture swatches of skin from both the Atlantic and Pacific species. As is true for many other materials, punching through a swatch of hagfish skin ...

A group of hagfish hanging out on the floor of the Pacific. NOAA The hagfish is not nature’s most lovable animal. It releases a snot-like slime when threatened, which converts to choking strands ...