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.

At first glance, these primitive fish are striking thanks to their unusual appearance. With no fins or scales, these pinkish-gray fish look more like giant earthworms gone wrong with rows of frightful ...

Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago. By Veronique Greenwood The hagfish, a ...

They're sneaky. They're slimy. And they're hungry for meat. The hagfish, or slime eel, has earned its name due to its unique defense mechanism. When they are agitated, hagfish can secrete slime to ...

Researchers at Utah State University have successfully demonstrated that hagfish slime proteins can accurately replicate membranes in the human eye. Professor Elizabeth Vargis and her team study a ...

Doug Fudge, a researcher from the University of Guelph working on the Isles of Shoals, thinks he’s found something beautiful in bottom-feeding hagfish. Researchers at Shoals Marine Laboratory on ...

The hagfish, a deep-sea scavenger about the size and shape of a tube sock, has the curious ability to smother itself in its own snot. The mucus is a defense mechanism, released into the water (or in ...

Researchers have successfully demonstrated that hagfish slime proteins can accurately replicate membranes in the human eye. Scientists were able to properly grow retinal cells on hagfish slime ...