Tropic Press: J.C. Bruce

Tropic Press: J.C. Bruce

The Strange Files

Getting Slimed

Alexander Strange
Jul 29, 2017
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Also known as a slime eel, a single hagfish can produce up to five gallons of snot when stressed. So consider what 7,500 pounds of the prehistoric critters could do when bounced on the freeway.

Highway 101 “just got slimed” the Depoe Bay Fire District announced on Twitter immediately after the accident.

Considered a delicacy in Korea, that’s where the hag…

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