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

I’ve seen this incredible slime mold time lapse video making the rounds on social media, so I decided to duet it (please let me know who filmed the original video so I can tag them). This is #ChocolateTubeSlimeMold or #Stemonitis going from it’s nascent egg-like stage into elongated yellowish tubes that quickly turn into brown powdery columns. These are the spore bearing sporangia of this slime mold. Despite going from egg to mature slime mold in as little as 24 hours, these spore laden chocolat

Time-lapse of a slime mold pulsating