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Enlarge / A Sixgill Hagfish (Eptatretus hexatrema) in False Bay, South Africa. The simple hagfish is an ugly, gray, eel-like creature best known for its ability to release a cloud of sticky slime on unsuspecting predators, clogging the gills and suffocating the predators. That is why it is also affectionately called a ‘snot snake’. Hagfish … Read more