A rollover crash involving a flatbed truck carrying live 'slime eels' - commonly called hagfish - left a trail of slippery slime on Highway 101 in Oregon on Thursday, July 13. According to the Depoe ...

In an accident scene that could have been dreamt up by horror writer Stephen King, crates of live slime eels flew off the back of a flatbed truck this week in Oregon covering the road and neighboring ...

Rush hour traffic can slow down a commute -- but slime eels, also known as "hagfish," were to blame for the midday car pileup on Oregon's US Highway 101. Rush hour traffic can slow down a commute -- ...

They're sneaky. They're slimy. And they're hungry for meat. The hagfish, or slime eel, has earned its name due to its unique defense mechanism. When they are agitated, hagfish can secrete slime to ...

Whatever you call them – slime eels, hagfish, nightmare fuel – an Oregon highway was drenched with 7,500 pounds of the sea creatures after a five-vehicle collision Thursday. Hagfish secrete sticky ...

Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago. By Veronique Greenwood The hagfish, a ...

CHARLESTON -- A new company, going under the name of Oregon Brand Seafood LLC, has emerged to take on a contract to revive a former fish plant as a seafood processor with an initial focus on slime eel ...

Hagfish produce copious amounts of slime when attacked, which chokes predators’ gills in a gooey net. Scientists now know that mucus plays a critical role in hagfish slime’s remarkable clogging ...

DEPOE BAY, Ore. -- A truck hauling eels overturned on a highway, turning a coastal road into a slimy mess. Oregon State Police on Thursday posted a photo that showed damaged cars and Highway 101 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are ...