Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hagfish© Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hagfish slime is a rapid-deploy chemical defense that can clog a shark’s gills in seconds.

Hagfish produce copious amounts of slime when attacked, which chokes predators’ gills in a gooey net. Scientists now know that mucus plays a critical role in hagfish slime’s remarkable clogging ...

Douglas Fudge: Did you wanna look at some slime? Christopher Intagliata (tape): I was hoping you would say that. Fudge: Let me grab a bucket here. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting ...

Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago. By Veronique Greenwood The hagfish, a ...

What keeps the boneless, jawless hagfish thriving after more than 300 million years? SLIME What keeps the boneless, jawless hagfish thriving after more than 300 million years? SLIME. The goop it ...

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