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2026-08-19

This fish fires a slime bomb.

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A hagfish can fire a slime bomb.
One tail pinch produced about 0.9 L of slime—roughly seven times the animal's body volume. The slime is more than 99.99% seawater: threads uncoil and mucus swells into a net in about 400 ms, which can clog a predator's mouth and gills. 1
The defense is observed. The study's skin-to-slime-gland origin story remains a hypothesis. 1
#Science #Hagfish #WeirdNature

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    Epidermal threads reveal the origin of hagfish slime

    doi.org

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