Motivational quote of the day

Hagfish, of the class Myxini /mɪkˈsaɪnaɪ/ (also known as Hyperotreti)
and order Myxiniformes /mɪkˈsɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/, are eel-shaped jawless fish
(occasionally called slime eels). Hagfish are the only known living
animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, however they do
have rudimentary vertebrae.[4] Hagfish are marine predators and
scavengers[5] that can defend themselves against other larger
predators by releasing copious amounts of slime from mucous glands
in their skin.[6]


Hagfish can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus,
from specialized slime glands.[6] When released in seawater, the slime expands
to 10,000 times its original size in 0.4 seconds.[13] This slime that hagfish
excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and retentive than the
slime excreted by other animals.[14] The fibers are made of proteins and also
make the slime flexible. If they are caught by a predator, they can quickly
release a large amount of slime to escape.[15] If they remain captured, they
can tie themselves in an overhand knot, and work their way from the head to the
tail of the animal, scraping off the slime and freeing themselves from their captor.
Rheological investigations showed that hagfish slime viscosity increases in
elongational flow which favors gill clogging of suction feeding fish, while
its viscosity decreases in shear which facilitates scraping off the slime
by the travelling-knot.[16]



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