In some of those dead fish, hagfish are found eating.

Hagfish are usually about half a meter (18 in) long.

This is the situation found in hagfish and some snails.

Which is what the new paper tries to do, by looking at a species of a group called the hagfish.

It is important, she said, to understand such issues as: How old are hagfish when they reach sexual maturity?

Even though fish are supposed to have backbones, hagfish do not.

Based on this evidence, hagfish clearly form a neural crest.

Not much is known about the hagfish reproductive process.

It is believed that hagfish only have 30 eggs over a lifetime.

The collision with the hagfish didn't seem to have done any serious damage.

Between the Dwellers and the hagfish, for all I know.

These two factors in combination suggest that the survival rate of hagfish is quite high.

Hagfish are sometimes seen curled around small clutches of eggs.

A single fossil of hagfish shows that there has been little evolutionary change in the last 300 million years.

Not even a mother could love a hagfish.

Out of the emptiness came hagfish yet again, suddenly, rising by the hundreds without warning.

So, aside from the dusty legend of a prize, why bother with hagfish?

A hagfish has six gill slits covered by a fold of skin.

And there were hagfish in these waters, too.

We'll be up to our asses in hagfish on deck."

It was a sea of hagfish: you could hardly see the water for the thrashing bodies.

There was no one on the ship's deck when the hagfish armada reached it.

Hagfish create large amounts of slime in just minutes.

The hagfish has feelers that enable it to find food more easily.

The Pacific hagfish is known to produce a mass amount of brown slime.

In some of those dead fish, hagfish are found eating.

The collision with the hagfish didn't seem to have done any serious damage.

This is the situation found in hagfish and some snails.

A fish which looks like the hagfish is the lamprey.

It is important, she said, to understand such issues as: How old are hagfish when they reach sexual maturity?

These two factors in combination suggest the survival rate of hagfish is quite high.

We'll be up to our asses in hagfish on deck.

It is believed that hagfish only have 30 eggs over a lifetime.

Hagfish research has found the "missing link" in the evolution of the eye.

Not much is known about the hagfish reproductive process.

Usually, people only see hagfish when nets that sweep the sea floor are pulled up.

Pacific hagfish can create large amounts of slime in just minutes.

A single fossil of hagfish shows little evolutionary change has occurred in the last 300 million years.

Take them down or they'll act as hagfish nets when the swarm hits us.

Out of the emptiness came hagfish yet again, suddenly, rising by the hundreds without warning.

Hagfish are sometimes seen curled around small clutches of eggs.

Not even a mother could love a hagfish.

Examples from this group make up two types of fish; lampreys and hagfish.

Between the Dwellers and the hagfish, for all I know.

The primitive lampreys and hagfish, however, have a simpler system.

It was a sea of hagfish: you could hardly see the water for the thrashing bodies.

There was no one on the ship's deck when the hagfish armada reached it.

In the United States, the black hagfish has been trapped for commercial purposes.

It is the first hagfish recorded from a hydrothermal vent.

However, there has been long discussion in scientific literature about whether the hagfish were even non-vertebrate.

The typical species Myxine glutinosa was named for this slime.

Myxine glutinosa (Atlantic hagfish)

In Canada, 1 species, Myxine glutinosa, is found in the Atlantic; 2 species of genus Eptatretus in the Pacific.

Inflation experiments were also performed on the aortae of two species of primitive vertebrates, the sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus and the Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa.