You don’t need to have ever seen a hagfish to have an idea of a hagfish. I mean, it’s called a hagfish for crying out loud. The reality of this creature is more or less exactly what you probably ...

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One of the most disgusting-looking fish I have encountered in my long career in fisheries is the Atlantic hagfish or, as the fishermen refer to them, slime eels. An extremely primitive fish similar to ...

Within the freshwater wetlands of Florida, a few species of salamanders known as sirens swim through the underwater vegetation. These elusive creatures are within the same order as salamanders, but ...

The mud on Roberts Bank at the southern end of the Fraser River Delta in British Columbia is deep—and smelly. Exposed at low tide, it ranges for kilometers, and looks devoid of life. But across some ...

Your earliest memories of mucus probably revolved around the contents of your nostrils. As a toddler, you were told not to “pick your nose” and you learned to find the slimy mucus gross. But for many ...

This week someone asked me what's the strangest thing I had encountered in the Gulf of Maine. It got me thinking. I have seen a lot of strange things! I guess it would be a slime star. Back in 1993, a ...