It’s hard to imagine that some creatures on Earth have survived for millions of years. While many species have come and gone, ...

We, the ancient and unchanged hagfish collective, have survived 300 million years without bowing to evolutionary pressure! While other species scrambled to develop jaws, vertebrae, and complex brains, ...

North American Opossum with winter coat. Image via Cody Pope, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. In the wild ...

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The hagfish is an eel-shaped jawless fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean and produces slime/silk consisting of tens of thousands of very thin protein threads very similar to spider silk.