If you have ever caught a fish you may have noticed they are slimy, which can make them hard to hold for a photo. The slime is produced by the fish’s skin and has several purposes. One is to ...

If you have ever caught a fish you may have noticed they are slimy, which can make them hard to hold for a photo. The slime is produced by the fish’s skin and has several purposes. One is to ...

The hagfish is an ugly, gray, eel-like creature—clammy, stinky, and eyeless—whose most interesting feature is the sticky slime it produces from pores all over its body when attacked. (Its ...

When this slime precursor is exuded from the fish, it rapidly mixes with the surrounding water and expands. The slime threads are tiny but vital to this process and unique to hagfish. Each is 10-17 ...

Fish slime isn’t the only animal-derived sticky stuff being studied for humans. Scientists in the field of biomimicry look to nature for solutions to man’s problems.

Before they call jackpot on the antibiotic potential of fish slime, they will seek to determine whether these particular bacteria are a typical and essential part of the animal's microbiomes, ...

Fish Slime Might Be the Secret to a Better Bulletproof Vest. To clarify, the fish themselves are not bulletproof. by Jack Crosbie. July 6, 2016. Getty Images / Mario Tama.

Fish farms, being the primary source of slime that can be clearly seen from Maltese coastlines have not just contributed to foul smells and waters unfit for swimming, but have also unashamedly been.

The fish gives corals slime-covered kisses. The finding, published on 5 June in Current Biology 1, adds to scientists’ understanding of how corals and the fish that feed on them affect each other.

People’s complaints regarding slime seeping into swimming areas are justified, but it has to be acknowledged that fish farms are not the only source of the foul-smelling liquid, Federation of Maltese ...

The fish farm slime problem will not be solved overnight, a spokeswoman for the Environment Ministry said. An investigation into fish farm pollution started earlier this month after numerous ...