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This is Scientific American's 60-second science.

I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

Mucous is a miraculous substance.

It's in our noses, of course, but it also helps us swallow,

and it lubricates our eyes so we can blink.

But it's not just us.

Mucous is ubiquitous in the oceans, too.

Fish are covered in mucus.

There are parrot fish, for example, that excrete... in the oceans too. Fish are covered in mucus.

There are parrot fish, for example, that excrete mucus balloons around their head,

presumably to protect them from predators or parasites.

Kakani Katija, a bioengineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

She's interested in the mucus creations of another creature, called a larvation. Actually, I wonder if I have one in my bag now.

She means a 3D printed one, not a real one. Katija says that larvations look a lot like tadpoles,

and even the ones called giant larvations are only about four inches long, but they excrete these spectacular mucus structures around them,

shaped almost like a neck pillow you'd bring on a plane,

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