Check out this time-lapse of a slime mold pulsating, captured by Fascinated By Fungi This is a. Slime molds are not actually a fungi, the common name slime mold is used for several kinds of eukaryotic organisms. The name refers to a particular stage in the life cycle of some of these organisms, where they resemble a gelatinous slime. Slime molds have neither a brain nor a central nervous system, nor any neurons. Nevertheless, some scientists argue they exhibit intelligence since they can "learn"

Slime Mold’s Fascinating Transformation This 24-hour time-lapse, created by Jitka Cejkova at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (2006), captures the remarkable transformation of a slime mold from a single-celled organism into a multicellular structure. The organism featured is Dictyostelium discoideum, a species of soil-dwelling amoeba in the phylum Amoebozoa. Known commonly as a slime mold, this eukaryote lives much of its life as individual, unicellular amoebae. When food bec