Spineless they may be, but they are fearsome predators all the same. Hagfish - primitive vertebrates with a spinal cord but no backbone - have for the first time been seen hunting.The snake-like animals are known to scavenge for food inside rotting carcasses, but via sea-floor video Vincent Zintzen of the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington and colleagues noticed a Neomyxine hagfish sticking its head into the burrows of red bandfish (Cepola haastii).
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