The Ugliest "Fish" Takes Over Our Show
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This may be our longest episode and it\'s all due to celebrating an odd but amazing creature. Even a good news story about an uber-resourceful inventor is overshadowed by the Hagfish.
ok, we may need to correct a few details of our conversation about Hagfish. They have a cartilage-like plate that helps them "rasp" the flesh they want to eat from the carcass. Or, their body is like a digestive organ and it\'s more efficient for them to digest their food through their skin than through their stomach!
Hagfish slime expands at an amazing rate and volume. So, they only need to secrete a little bit to create lots and lots of slime.
And, just one more "did you know"...Hagfish slime is one of the softest substances ever recorded. Trying to quantify it meant that researchers had to change the way they measured it.
Oh...and Tim, you didn\'t mention their useful "tying-their-body-in-a-knot" trick!
For more info check out this article in the Atlantic about Hagfish slime fending off sharks and Priuses
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