They're sneaky. They're slimy. And they're hungry for meat. The hagfish, or slime eel, has earned its name due to its unique defense mechanism. When they are agitated, hagfish can secrete slime to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are ...

Hagfish are undoubtedly weird. Sometimes called slime eels, they aren’t actually eels. They are fish but have no scales or fins. Hagfish are the only vertebrates with no spine. They do have a skull, ...

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 ...

In an accident scene that could have been dreamt up by horror writer Stephen King, crates of live slime eels flew off the back of a flatbed truck this week in Oregon covering the road and neighboring ...

DEPOE BAY, Ore. -- A truck hauling eels overturned on a highway, turning a coastal road into a slimy mess. Oregon State Police on Thursday posted a photo that showed damaged cars and Highway 101 ...

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 ...

A snake has been spotted attempting to swallow down a long, slimy eel, but the fish did not go down without a fight. A video of the strange wrestling match was posted to Facebook by the Wildlife ...

The science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell hadn’t given eels much thought until a Maine neighbor announced that Ms. Shell’s nearby swimming hole might be brimming with them. Because eels are by their ...