BY CHRIS NOBLE | PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN
BY CHRIS NOBLE | PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLANHagfish may not have evolved much over the last 300 million years, but their protein-heavy slime promises advances in super-materials.
BY CHRIS NOBLE | PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN
Hagfish may not have evolved much over the last 300 million years, but their protein-heavy slime promises advances in super-materials. Scientists are working on uses ranging from bullet-proof vests to artificial tendons, as the somewhat mysterious mucilaginous secretion possesses extraordinary properties that researchers are only just starting to get to grips with.
These particular specimens, though, photographed at AA Seafoods in Newport, Oregon, avoided the lab and went straight to dinner plates in South Korea, again proving they’re more than a fish only their mother could love.
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A worker at a AA Seafoods facility in Newport handles a hagfish.
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Hagfish feed on whale carcasses at the bottom of the ocean, stripping them of all their flesh.
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AA Seafoods exports hagfish to South Korea, where fisherman overfished their stock.
