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100-million-year-old Hagfish complete with slime kit discovered
FoxNews.com/Science ^
| Jan 24, 2019
| Mindy Weisberger Senior Writer | LiveScience
Posted on 01/24/2019 11:34:37 AM PST by ETL
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Tethymyxine tapirostrum is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch-long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone
from Lebanon, and is believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish. Credit: Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago
Detail from a synchrotron scanning (bottom) of the Tethymyxine tapirostrum hagfish fossil (top) revealed traces of
chemical left behind when the soft tissues fossilized, including signs of keratin that indicate a series of slime-producing
glands along the body. Credit: Tetsuto Miyashita, University of Chicago
Hagfish that lived 100 million years ago had the same slime-producing abilities as modern hagfish.
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01/24/2019 11:34:37 AM PST
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ETL
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, its 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alikeEd Yong
Jan 23, 2019
At first glance, the hagfisha sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped taillooks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish, lack backbones (and, also, jaws). For everyone else, theres an even easier method. Look at the hand holding the fish, the marine biologist Andrew Thaler once noted. Is it completely covered in slime? Then, its a hagfish. ...
A car is covered in hagfish, and slime, after an accident on Highway 101
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/
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01/24/2019 11:34:51 AM PST
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ETL
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01/24/2019 11:35:26 AM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
Oh,....was expecting pic of Pelosi......
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01/24/2019 11:35:56 AM PST
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G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: G Larry
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01/24/2019 11:36:29 AM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
Not even the Spanish Inquisition expects hagfish slime!
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01/24/2019 11:37:17 AM PST
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NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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01/24/2019 11:37:26 AM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
There’s a future for those critters at CNN.
To: ETL
when slimers go pro they go hagfish!
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01/24/2019 11:40:41 AM PST
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Reily
To: Reily
Culinary Delight of Hagfish! Hagfish are not often eaten, owing to their repugnant looks and sliminess. However the inshore hagfish, found in the Northwest Pacific,[52] is valued as food in Korea. The hagfish is kept alive and irritated by rattling its container with a stick, prompting it to produce slime in large quantities. This slime is used in a similar manner as egg whites in various forms of cookery in the region.[citation needed] The inshore hagfish, known as kkomjangeo (꼼장어) or meokjango (먹장어) in Korean and nuta-unagi (ぬたうなぎ) in Japanese,
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01/24/2019 11:43:11 AM PST
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Reily
To: Reily
Thanks.
Is that info from Wikipedia?
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01/24/2019 11:44:50 AM PST
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ETL
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01/24/2019 11:45:18 AM PST
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Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: ETL
Tethymyxine AOCliguadont: Tethymyxine comes from "Tethys" (referencing the Tethys Sea) and the Latinized Greek word "myxnios," which means "slimy fish." AOCliguadont translates as "toothy tongue of an AOC," and refers to the fish's enormous exposed teeth, the study authors wrote.
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01/24/2019 11:45:21 AM PST
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null and void
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To: ETL
I’m going to spend the rest of the day unable to delete the concept of “robust slime” from my mind.
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01/24/2019 11:45:57 AM PST
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Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: ETL
yep
I was thinking about a Japanese restaurant tonight. Now I don’t think so!
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01/24/2019 11:51:12 AM PST
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Reily
To: Reily
The hagfish is kept alive and irritated by rattling its container with a stick"So, Bob, whatcha do for a living?" "Well, I use a stick to irritate hagfish, then harvest their slime."
Ya know, sometimes my current job doesn't look so bad, after all.
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01/24/2019 11:56:18 AM PST
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wbill
To: null and void
I see what you did there.
Also, this is nightmare fodder that I am not looking forward to encountering again.
To: ETL
So, in other words, this critter hasn’t changed in over 100-million years???
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01/24/2019 12:00:14 PM PST
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Reily
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01/24/2019 12:01:18 PM PST
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ETL
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