Slimy Hagfish Is Threatened— and Vital

Pity the poor hagfish: It has an awful name, an even-worse nickname (“slime eel”), shudder-inducing eating habits (it is thought to burrow into dead and dying creatures on the ocean floor and absorb nutrients through its skin), and now troubling numbers about its very survival. Of 76 species worldwide, nine…

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Slimy Hagfish Is Threatened— and Vital

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