A rollover crash involving a flatbed truck carrying live 'slime eels' - commonly called hagfish - left a trail of slippery slime on Highway 101 in Oregon on Thursday, July 13. According to the Depoe ...

Whatever you call them – slime eels, hagfish, nightmare fuel – an Oregon highway was drenched with 7,500 pounds of the sea creatures after a five-vehicle collision Thursday. Hagfish secrete sticky ...

CHARLESTON -- A new company, going under the name of Oregon Brand Seafood LLC, has emerged to take on a contract to revive a former fish plant as a seafood processor with an initial focus on slime eel ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Oregon (WDRB) -- A truck carrying 7,500 pounds of slime eels overturned Thursday in Oregon. The animals, known as "hagfish," were spilled all over the highway. Oregon State Troopers ...

The humble hagfish is an ugly, gray, eel-like creature best known for its ability to unleash a cloud of sticky slime onto unsuspecting predators, clogging the gills and suffocating said predators.

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 ...

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 ...