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Article: A hagfish by any other name would not smell as sweet.(RESEARCH NEWS)
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- Oceanus
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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It's not hard to figure out how hagfish got their name, as they aren't exactly warm and fuzzy. Skinny, coated in gooey slime, and often found wriggling and eating in the guts of dead whales, they're not the sort of critter most people want to be associated with. When Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott captured a specimen of the worm-like fish during a dive in the cold, inky Pacific depths in March 2005, he recalled thinking it was "cool ... but in a hideous sort of way."
About a year later, he learned scientists wanted to name it for him. It turns out that the fish he spotted swimming at a depth of 7,218 feet (2,200 meters) during an oceanographic expedition south of ...
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