By Max and Sophia

This is what a hagfish looks like.

Eating habits The Hagfish literally eats its prey from the inside out. It uses it’s sandpaper like tongue to eat. It actually has no teeth to eat with. It burrows into its prey to eat.

Size and maximum age They are 30 to 63.5 cm in length. Females are larger than males. Common life span of Pacific hagfish in the wild is 40 years, and 17 years in captivity.

Special abilities One of the most revolting behaviors of hagfish is the ability to produce large amounts of snot-like slime almost immediately. The slime is secreted as a defense mechanism from glands that line the sides of the body. Upon contact with seawater, the slime rapidly expands into a sticky gel that can sometimes suffocate an enemy. Hagfish also have the ability to tie a knot in their body, and slide in and out of the knot. This can be used to escape predators, to burrow into a carcass, to gain leverage to tear off pieces of flesh, or clean itself of slime.

Range They live in European waters, or the seas around Europe.

Other comments One pacific hagfish can fill a 7 liter bucket in minutes. People MAY have evolved from hagfish.