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Melissa Hobson

Pacific Hagfish: The ancient deep-sea creature that can can choke a shark by spewing slime

A curled up hagfish on the sandy sea floor.

Name: Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)

Where it lives: Cold water seabeds around the world, usually below 300 feet (90 meters) deep 

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