Happy Slime Mold Sunday everyone!! Check out this amazing pulsing #DogVomitSlimeMold #Fuligoseptica captured by my buddy @jawanns. Slime molds are tricky to define biologically, they are not fungi but instead classified as Protista (like amoebas). They are single celled eukaryotes and merge together into giant motile cells that creepy along the forest floor sucking of organic matter. This moving crawling stage is known as plasmodium, which displays “network intelligence”, meaning it can navigate

Time-lapse of a slime mold pulsating

MOLD ON BREAD UNDER A MICROSCOPE 🔬 #microscope | Mir Glazami Microscopa

Mold magnified 400X is so cool! #microscope #mold | Mir Glazami Microscopa

Compilation of slime mold plasmodium pulsing. Acellular slime molds (Myxomycetes) fuse together to form one giant multinucleated cell, moving and crawling around their environment consuming organic matter in their path. As conditions dictate, they will start forming a spore bearing fruiting body called sporangia. Here you can see the plasmodium “breathing” in timelapse as the intracellular flow of cellular components shifts every ~90s in a process called cytoplasmic streaming. Slime molds displa

Unraveling The Brainless Intelligence Of Slime Mold