Primitive scavenger fish eats using its skin

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 20:30 in Biology & Nature

Hagfish are simple, tubelike scavengers with gruesome feeding habits: When the ugly predator encounters a carcass on the seafloor, it burrows into the body cavity of the dead or dying animal. There it eats, not only with its mouth, but also with its skin and gills.

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