Hagfish: True or False?

Hagfish: True or False?

Give it your best shot! Before you go researching this fish online or in our “Monsters of the Deep” cards, let your imagination go wild – given its name, what do you think this fish would look like? Would it be poisonous? Would it have tentacles? Then take a minute and, based on what you came up with, try to decipher if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE:

The hagfish may not have bones, but its body is covered in a nasty slime

The hagfish has an amazing 14 sets of eyes

The hagfish can slip inside the body of bigger creatures and feed on its insides

The hagfish’s body changes color, depending on what color plankton it is near

The hagfish starts out as both male and female, and develops into one sex later in its life

The hagfish has the amazing ability to tie its body into a knot

The hagfish drools gooey purple poison

The hagfish is mainly found in shallow, warm pools of water

You can find out more about the hagfish on card #6 of “Monsters of the Deep,” or wait until the answers are unveiled next month!