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When a shark bites down on a hagfish, the fish floods its attacker's mouth with slime in a fraction of a second, clogging the predator's gills until it gags and lets go

Cameras on the deep seafloor finally caught the defense in the act, and it works almost the instant a predator commits to the bite. A hagfish looks like easy prey. It is a soft, eel-shaped, jawless fish with no scales, no bony armor, and no obvious way to fight back. Then a shark or a conger eel closes its mouth around one, and the water inside that mouth turns, almost instantly,... [6820 chars]

When a shark bites down on a hagfish, the fish floods its attacker's mouth with slime in a fraction of a second, clogging the predator's gills until it gags and lets go

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