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Hagfish Slime Makes Super-Clothes

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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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http://news.discovery.com/tech/hagfish-slime-super-clothes-121203.html