Hagfishes will jet their slime from the part of their body that is under attack. If a shark tries to take a bite, the hagfish sends slime straight into the mouth and gills of the predator, forcing ...

Meet the hagfish, a jawless marine creature notorious for producing massive amounts of slime when threatened. This deep-sea survivor has remained virtually unchanged for millions of years ...

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 ...

This video shows the internal structure of developing gland thread cells in hagfish slime. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

The hagfish is a slime-emitting ocean-dweller that's remained unchanged for 300 million years--and it shows. It has a skull (but no spine), velvet smooth skin, and a terrifying pit of a mouth that ...

A road in the US has been "slimed" after a truck full of hagfish overturned in Oregon. The 3,400kg of hagfish, eel-shaped fish, were to be exported to South Korea, where they are considered a ...

Fig. 2a shows a three-dimensional reconstruction of thread packing within a developing hagfish gland thread cell. Fig. 2b shows a three-dimensional reconstruction of 12 continuous loops of thread ...