Hagfish are an evolutionary remnant of the earliest fish which lived some 450 million years ago. They live at depths down to a kilometre. Disturbed, an hagfish can instantly produce a bucketful of thick slime earning its other name, snot fish.
PETER BATSON
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Forest and Bird, Issue 310, 1 November 2003, Page 33
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43Hagfish are an evolutionary remnant of the earliest fish which lived some 450 million years ago. They live at depths down to a kilometre. Disturbed, an hagfish can instantly produce a bucketful of thick slime earning its other name, snot fish. PETER BATSON Forest and Bird, Issue 310, 1 November 2003, Page 33
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