A rollover crash involving a flatbed truck carrying live 'slime eels' - commonly called hagfish - left a trail of slippery slime on Highway 101 in Oregon on Thursday, July 13. According to the Depoe ...

Deep in the cold, dark sea, one of the most bizarre survivors of evolution can be found: the hagfish. Dubbed the ‘slime ...

The first time Vinalhaven lobsterboat captain Frank Thompson trapped hagfish in the Gulf of Maine, the pinkish-gray, snakelike animals popped the hatch off his hold — with their slime. When stressed ...

CHARLESTON -- A new company, going under the name of Oregon Brand Seafood LLC, has emerged to take on a contract to revive a former fish plant as a seafood processor with an initial focus on slime eel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hagfish produce copious amounts of slime when attacked, which chokes predators’ gills in a gooey net. Scientists now know that mucus plays a critical role in hagfish slime’s remarkable clogging ...