Truck carrying slime eels overturns on highway

6 years ago

"Officials say slime eels, or hagfish, secrete slime."

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Tags: mutants, parts, tentacles

11 Responses:

1. Jan Kujawa says:

   6 years ago at 9:13 pm

   Napalm or nuke? Both? Maybe a priest, too.

2. Rich says:

   6 years ago at 10:01 pm

   Eels up inside you

   • Owen W. says:

     6 years ago at 12:04 pm

     I'm not clicking that

3. Line Noise says:

   6 years ago at 10:12 pm

   Why? Are they good eating or something? Maybe the slime makes a good industrial lubricant?

   Also, "The flying containers of eel caused a chain-reaction".

4. Yuma Tripp says:

   6 years ago at 10:49 pm

   Nope

5. jwz says:

   6 years ago at 12:20 am

   In case you were wondering who buys these things, Koreans.

   The 14- to 18-inch hagfish looks like an eel. In fact, there is debate over whether it is really a fish. The 300 million-year-old creature has no jaws and one nostril. Essentially blind, it dwells in the dark more than 1,000 feet down. [...]

   Hagfish has a modest following among older Korean men who savor it as an appetizer broiled in sesame oil, sprinkled with salt and accompanied by a shot of liquor. Peter Chu, a seafood exporter in Eureka, Calif., said the fish sells for as much as $20 a pound in South Korea, which he estimates consumes 9 million pounds a year. "There's a myth there that it's an aphrodisiac. It gives you energy like Viagra," Chu said. "It's like oysters here." [...]

   As if its looks weren't enough of a turnoff, hagfish, when agitated, vomit and secrete a protein that reacts with seawater to create a thick mucus. A single animal can turn a five-gallon bucket of seawater into a pool of goo in a matter of moments, said Eddie Kisfaludy of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. While the slime distracts predators, it also occasionally suffocates the hagfish.

   "They're definitely more interesting than maggots, but then all these researchers who work on fruit flies will probably argue with me," Kisfaludy said.

   • Megohm says:

     6 years ago at 11:10 pm

     In addition to being used for food, hagfish are also used to create a variety of leather-like eel products as well as some of Mike Rowe's finer television moments.

   • k3ninho says:

     6 years ago at 2:14 am

     A cheap source of bio-friendly goo, huh? That's new to me -- I'll add that to my list of sources of goo.

     K3n.

6. DaveL says:

   6 years ago at 11:48 am

   There's a very gruesome scene involving hagfish in Martin Cruz Smith's novel "Polar Star."

7. Cookie Wolf says:

   6 years ago at 12:01 pm

   Shrieking eels?

   https://youtu.be/KGcat9tGZVU

8. margaret says:

   6 years ago at 5:44 pm

   Memories of prom night...