LOS ANGELES - As antibiotics become more resistant to dangerous bacteria, researchers are looking into whether fish slime could provide a way to protect humans from those pathogens. The team, which ...

If rolling around in the muck isn’t your thing, you might want to skip this one. It’s all about the slime. Fish and slug slime, that is. At recent scientific meetings, researchers detailed their ...

The humble hagfish produces a sticky slime to defend itself from predators, as well as to hunt for its own food. Now a team of Swiss scientists has figured out the physics behind how the hagfish can ...

Some fish even have poisons in their slime to help protect them. Because the gunk is important to fish, anglers should keep them in the water as much as possible and wet their hands before picking a ...