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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
It’s all hagfish today, baby!
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Hagfish appear to use slime to avoid predators like sharks (top) and large fish (bottom). The images above are from videos showing fish eating a hagfish, which then produces slime and is able to escape (Images from wikimediacommons).
- No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
- Found: The First Fossil of the Slime-Spewing Hagfish and ‘Like finding a sneeze’: fossil identified as 100m-year-old hagfish.
- Slime, baby, slime!