#theres so much info on hagfishes its hard to pick just one or two things. most people already know them for their slime
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Fish fact #476
Hagfish!
This class of 88 different species are interesting fish, as they are the only animals to have a skull made of cartilage but no spine!
#theres so much info on hagfishes its hard to pick just one or two things. most people already know them for their slime#but they can also squeeze through crevices less than half their body width#they have only simple eye spots and no complex eyes but fossil evidence suggests they used to have the latter#theyre more or less living fossils#the way they produce their slime could be a whole single fish fact#but perhaps ill name all these in a proper fact another time#fish#fishfact#fish facts#fishblr#marine biology#marine life#marine animals#sea creatures#sea animals#sea life#deep sea#deep sea fish#biology#zoology#hagfish
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