When attacked, the eel-like hagfish slimes its predator, clogging the fish’s gills so that it can escape. A recent study looks at just what makes the slime so effective. There Keep reading
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A Look at Hagfish
Hagfish are the lords of slime. Their viscoelastic protection mechanism is so effective that they’ve hardly changed up their game in the past 300 million years. Instead, at the first Keep reading
Hagfish Slime
The eel-like hagfish is a superpowered escape artist, thanks to its slime. When threatened, the hagfish releases long protein-rich threads that, when combined with turbulent sea water, unravel to form Keep reading
How the Hagfish Deploys Its Slime
Hagfish – an eel-like species – are known for their prodigious slime production, which helps them escape predators (and, in some cases, seriously muck up highways). Part of the hagfish’s Keep reading
Hagfish Crash
Last week a flatbed truck in Oregon overturned and released 3400 kilograms of live hagfish on the highway and nearby cars. Hagfish are eel-like fish known for their impressive slime Keep reading
Hagfish Escape Mechanisms
The hagfish is an eel-like creature that has not changed much in the past 300 million years in part because the hagfish is very good at escaping would-be predators. When Keep reading