This incident left a lot of suddenly very stressed hagfish strewn across a road in Oregon, USA. Generally, though, it isn't car accidents that give hagfishes a reason to produce slime. It seems that ...

The hagfish is a slime-emitting ocean-dweller that's remained unchanged for 300 million years--and it shows. It has a skull (but no spine), velvet smooth skin, and a terrifying pit of a mouth that ...