103K views · 445 shares | Slime mold—beautiful, gross or simply...

204K views · 5K reactions | An incredible time lapse of slime mold plasmodium pulsing or ‘breathing’ driven by cytoplasmic streaming. Slime molds run on a ‘network intelligence’ to coordinate their senses across the plasmodium. How cool! Thanks, Fascinated by Fungi for sharing this video! | Paul Stamets | Facebook

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

241K views · 739 reactions | Check out this time-lapse of a slime...