This is neither an award nor a sculpture. It’s the fruiting body of a slime mold – a structure that helps the slime mold reproduce and spread. Fruiting bodies contain spores that are released into the ...

Slime-mold amoebae are free-living microorganisms that periodically gather together to form macroscopic fruiting bodies. It now seems several that secreted gases play several important roles in ...

A simple slime mold may not be as dissimilar from complex multicellular creatures as previously assumed. When the single-celled organisms come together to form a multicellular fruiting body, they ...

Slime molds are like nothing else on earth ... The taxonomy of myxos depends on what the fruiting bodies look like: size, shape, color and their "complexion" (smooth or warty), as well as ...

Photographer Alison Pollack snapped this picture of fruiting bodies from a slime mold growing on leaves, according to her Instagram post. She explains that the fruiting bodies are less than a ...