Meet The Blob, A Creature That Has Almost 720 Sexes — But No Brain

This remarkable single-celled creature has many superpowers

by GrrlScientist for Forbes | @GrrlScientist

NOTE: This piece was a Forbes Editor’s pick.

The yellow net-like bits are “the blob” (Physarum polycephalum), a plasmodium slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. The blob is a unicellular organism that is neither plant, nor mushroom, nor animal.
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If you are in Paris, then you may have the pleasure to meet a mysterious microbeastie, “the blob”, a bright yellow unicellular critter that looks like a…