No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

The Atlantic
These things appear to be some kind of Dr. Who monster. I wonder how little framing I'd have to have done to convince you the above screenshot was faked/photoshopped
@mcc "a single hagfish can fill a 5-gallon bucket with slime, seemingly instantly" is an all time great sentence, partner and i still quote it to one another years later

@jplebreton @mcc I really like the line

"They slime when attacked or simply when stressed."

same