Animal world
Slime eel - the slimiest animal in the world
Slime eels have evolved the ability to use mucus as a defense mechanism to clog the gills of predators in less than a second.
Myxinidae
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Oceanography
Sardines can produce silk like silkworms
The non-jaw, invertebrate rocky grouper, which looks like giant worms, is a primitive species that lives on the ocean floor, present on the planet 500 million years ago.
New technology
The bulletproof jacket is 10 times stronger than steel from fish mucus
The US Navy recently announced to the media that they could fabricate a bulletproof jacket that is 10 times stronger than the steel of a fish's mucus.