Because mushrooms could be a potential carrier of disease-causing microorganisms, it is best to enjoy them cooked. If you put ...

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Make your own slime and learn more about the many kinds of mucus in a hands-on SciFri education activity! Without mucus, you couldn’t blink, swallow, smell, or taste. You couldn’t digest your food, ...

Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago. By Veronique Greenwood The hagfish, a ...

The hagfish dates back at least 300 million years. The secret of survival for these eel-like sea creatures can be found in the rate and volume of slime it produces to fend off predators. The hagfish ...