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Did you want to look at some slime? I was hoping you would say that, yeah.

I would grab a bucket here.

Of all the things I've dreamed of doing in my lifetime, being slimed by a hagfish was not on the list.

But maybe it should have been, because slime is incredibly cool stuff.

This is Christopher and Dahliaatta and you're listening to scientific

Americans science quickly. Today I'm taking you on the first of a three-part journey into the deeply

sticky and fascinating subject of slime. Muckus, it turns out, is nothing to sniff at.

Wildly complex and just as versatile, it's a true miracle.

So grab a tissue and prepare to be surprised by the multitude of species, including ourselves, who are not only alive but thriving because of mucus.

My fascination with mucus recently took me to orange California where biology professor

Douglas fudge of Chapman University keeps a tank full of hagfish.

Smells a little fishy in here.

It does smell a little fishy in here.

Hagfish are these eel-shaped fish and they're prolific producers of slime.

We have the Pacific Hagfish, which is one that we get just off the coast of California.

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