You don’t need to have ever seen a hagfish to have an idea of a hagfish. I mean, it’s called a hagfish for crying out loud. The reality of this creature is more or less exactly what you probably ...

Hagfish slime is a rapid-deploy chemical defense that can clog a shark’s gills in seconds. The slime’s strength comes from microscopic protein threads that self-assemble when exposed to seawater.

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