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Meanings of hagfish in inglês

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mixinoïdeu
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myxini

Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies.

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Usage of hagfish in inglês
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The idea suggests that body knotting is no mere hagfish party trick.
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Put simply, hagfish are like nothing else in the animal kingdom.
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Other pressures might have led hagfish to lose their backbone-like structures, says Barley.
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Today, many hagfish hang around at the bottom of the ocean.
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Similarly, hagfish slime is not necessarily all about lubrication during knotting.
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Johannes saw the faint flickerings of blind, eel-like hagfish; squat echurians; thick, blanched trilobites.
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And though they may look weak and squishy, hagfish are actually burly gnawing machines.
Wired
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What's more, hagfish have skin so floppy that it should seriously compromise their swimming.
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Where to begin when describing the extraordinary biology of hagfish?
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Animals that looked something like today's lampreys and hagfish.
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Electron microscopic studies of hagfish tissues demonstrated the presence of Weibel-Palade bodies in the endothelium.
Pubmed
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As far as external appearances go, hagfish have hardly changed through that vast expanse of time.
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But if it ever does come to pass, one day a hagfish could save your life.
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In 2011, Glover and his colleagues showed that hagfish can absorb nutrients directly through their skin.
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This could explain why hagfish have extra hearts.
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There are an estimated 76 species of hagfish, which live in cold waters around the world.
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Hagfish through the time