A monk seal is entangled in a hagfish trap off Kure Atoll, part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Surfrider Foundation on Monday launched a statewide effort called “North Pacific Hagfish ...

The hagfish is a slime-emitting ocean-dweller that's remained unchanged for 300 million years--and it shows. It has a skull (but no spine), velvet smooth skin, and a terrifying pit of a mouth that ...

The fish also had four or five “branchial slime pores,” according to the study, double what other species have. The roughly foot-long sea creature is a new species, and was na ...

Similarly, the Pacific Ocean recently washed up a previously discovered but exceptionally looking anglerfish on a beach in the USA. The brown hagfish (Pacific), or more precisely Eptatretus ...