# Interesting article on hagfish slime

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-hagfish-slime/828444>\
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**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-hagfish-slime/828444 "2019-01-26T15:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-hagfish-slime/828444/1 "2019-01-26T15:40:15Z")

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> **[No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/)**
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> 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.

It’s a slime which expands massively.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-hagfish-slime/828444/2 "2019-01-26T17:02:22Z")

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Excellent article and amazing videos; thanks!