Ed 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/
Not even the Spanish Inquisition expects hagfish slime!