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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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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

Ed Yong
Jan 23, 2019

At first glance, the hagfish—a sinuous, tubular animal with pink-grey skin and a paddle-shaped tail—looks very much like an eel. Naturalists can tell the two apart because hagfish, unlike other fish, lack backbones (and, also, jaws). For everyone else, there’s 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, it’s 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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[G Larry]

Oh,....was expecting pic of Pelosi......

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[Billthedrill]

There’s a future for those critters at CNN.

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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.

[rjsimmon]

So, in other words, this critter hasn’t changed in over 100-million years???

[pepsi_junkie]

If we continuously evolve, why do some species like this hagfish remain unchanged for hundreds of millions of years? Are they already perfect for their environment? Has it never changed in all that time?

[Jamestown1630]

That is one strange fish:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/the-hagfish-is-the-slimy-sea-creature-of-you/

[major_gaff]

Reminds me of an ex-girlfriend

[lefty-lie-spy]

It looks like a lamprey to me.