Although the thick, sticky substance hagfish produce is called slime, it’s actually not. Its characteristics are instead a milky, fibrous mucus. The speciesMyxini glutinosawas named for it, with the word “glutinosa” in Latin meaning glutinous or gummy. Hagfish produce slime while they eat,...
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Hagfish can produce copious amounts of slime from 90 to 200 slime pores that run the length of their body. With these dedicated sliming glands, a single hagfish can produce over a gallon of mucus in single sliming event. The video below should convince you that the hagfish’s superpower ...
Hagfishes are an ancient group of bottom-dwelling creatures that have remained relatively unchanged for more than 300 million years. When threatened, they secrete a gelatinous slime containing mucus and tens of thousands of protein threads coiled like skeins of yarn. This video shows the internal...
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