Here’s how hagfish slime gets 10,000 times bigger in 0.4 seconds


hagfish slime
Animals

Sharks versus rapidly expanding snot.

Biologists are still trying to work out exactly how hagfish slime works—it’s something of an engineering marvel.
via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2RSzLP5"

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