News Headline
Hagfish Slime Makes Super-Clothes
Source
Discovery
Publication Date
2012-12-13
One of the world’s creepiest creatures may be the source of new kinds of petroleum-free plastics and super-strong fabrics, according to research by scientists in Canada studying the hagfish, a bottom-dwelling creature that hasn’t evolved for 300 million years and produces a sticky slime when threatened.
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