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 ...

Beachgoers in Maui County may help solve a mystery that’s been plaguing Hawaii’s waters for years. The Surfrider Foundation on Monday launched a statewide effort called “North Pacific Hagfish Trap ...

When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up ...

Navy researchers are looking in an unlikely place for new technology: at the bottom of the ocean where the hagfish lives. The reason the Navy is interested in the primitive eel-looking creature has to ...

UPDATE: 'It was so messy': Driver recounts U.S. 101 hagfish sliming Firefighters, road crews, police and heavy equipment operators tackled the cleanup of thousands of slime eels that fell out of bins ...

When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up ...

The Pacific Hagfish is a strange animal: it feeds by gnawing its way into a carcass and staying inside it to feed for long periods of time. Dan Baker from the University of British Columbia (Canada) ...

The hagfish, a primitive fish that looks like an eel and scavenges off the ocean floor, dwells in cold, deep waters around the world — but not in Hawaii. Yet, for years, thousands upon thousands of ...