You may have come across eel-like hagfishes from the few times they have gone viral on the internet, but they might be even more unusual than the videos and photos suggest. While some might describe a ...

Researchers find large hagfishes grow extremely large cells in order to produce stronger threads that are used in their defensive slime, reports a new study from the Chapman University at Orange, ...

The strange, slimy creatures called hagfishes are of abiding interest to students of vertebrate evolution: just where do they fit in? Investigations of hagfish development take the story forward.

Cyclostomes, the living jawless vertebrates including hagfishes and lampreys, represent the most basal lineage of vertebrates. Although the monophyly of cyclostomes has been supported by recent ...

New research shows how hagfishes survive an initial attack from predators before they release large volumes of slime to defend themselves. Because the slime is released after they are attacked, this ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, our ancestors began developing a physical characteristic that is almost universal among modern vertebrates: jaws. In fact, the hagfish and the lamprey are the only known ...

Scientists have developed a novel way to observe the elusive burrowing behavior of hagfish. Scientists created a specialized tank of transparent gelatin in order to visualize how the hagfish behave ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Skin that mostly hangs loose around hagfishes proves handy for living through a shark attack or wriggling through a crevice. The skin on hagfishes’ long, sausage-style bodies is ...

These and other findings from Kuratani’s team strongly support a model in which hagfishes and lampreys belong to a common ‘branch’ of the evolutionary tree. “With these findings, people will be ...