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The bold question-askers at What If show how hagfish slime expands massively to ward off underwater predators.
Hagfish are deep-sea eel-like creatures that, when attacked, produce a slime that explodes out to choke their assailant. The slime forms from a small amount of mucus that is ejected from the ...
The hagfish is more than 300 million years old and it lives out of sight in the deepest depths of the ocean. Without a jaw, this spineless ancient creature scavenges the ocean floor for food.
Hagfish also love to burrow into the deep-sea sediment, but scientists have been unable to observe precisely how they do so because the murky sediment obscures the view.
Hagfish that lived 100 million years ago had the same slime-producing abilities as modern hagfish. (Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago/Vincent Zintzen (New Zealand Department of Conservation ...
Hagfish are deep-sea, blue-gray, eel-like scavengers known for producing buckets of milky, fibrous slime through a hundred or so glands along their fin-less flanks.
The hagfish is an ugly, gray, eel-like creature—clammy, stinky, and eyeless—whose most interesting feature is the sticky slime it produces from pores all over its body when attacked. (Its ...
The homely hagfish might look like just your average bottom feeder, but it has a secret weapon: it can unleash a full liter of sticky slime in less than one second.
When It Comes to Romance, a Hagfish Never Tells—and That’s a Serious Problem. Once mistaken for a worm, this ancient, jawless, slime-spewing, ...
Without hagfish, evolutionary biologists are left with a gap between complex invertebrates like sea squirts and amphioxus, and simple vertebrates like lampreys.Whatever went between them, "we don ...
Hagfish mucous also contains thread-like proteins that are incredibly tough, so much so that researchers are trying to figure out how they can use the slime to stop bleeding in accident victims ...