Hagfish are deep-sea, blue-gray, eel-like scavengers known for producing buckets of milky, fibrous slime through a hundred or so glands along their fin-less flanks. The face is less than beautiful in ...

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.

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 ...

The most loveable ghost ever has to be Slimer, mostly because I don’t buy Casper’s overdone friendliness shtick for a second. In Ghostbusters, Slimer introduces himself to Bill Murray with a hug, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Hagfish are survivors, and they didn’t get that way by being ...

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.

Paleontologists have discovered the first detailed fossil of a hagfish, the slimy, eel-like carrion feeders of the ocean. The 100-million-year-old fossil helps answer questions about when these ...

Sadly, a flatbed truck dumping 7,500 lbs of live hagfish onto a highway in Oregon will not be the weirdest story of 2017. It will not even be close. Still, the situation warrants some kind of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Whatever you call them — slime eels, hagfish, nightmare fuel — an Oregon highway was drenched with 7,500 pounds of the sea creatures after a five-vehicle ...

Whatever you call them - slime eels, hagfish, nightmare fuel - an Oregon highway was drenched with 7,500 pounds of the sea creatures after a five-vehicle collision Thursday. Hagfish secrete sticky ...

Whatever you call them – slime eels, hagfish, nightmare fuel – an Oregon highway was drenched with 7,500 pounds of the sea creatures after a five-vehicle collision Thursday. Hagfish secrete sticky ...