Aberffraw, Ynys Môn (Anglesey): Plenty of fungi can be found among the sand here; in fact it is vital to keeping the dunes at bay

Meet the highly intelligent, bright yellow blob that doesn’t have a brain.

🎥 Slime mould eating a living ant?!?📸 It looks like the pulsing plasmodium of this ‘dog’s vomit’ slime mould (Fuligo septica) is consuming an ant that’s still alive.🐜 Footage I shot before this clip shows it is clearly alive, but appears to be stuck/unable to move. I don’t think slime moulds have been recorded to consume living insects like this. So is it just a coincidence? Let me know what you think 💭 #scottishfungi #slimemoulds #timelapse #lookcloser

ALT: Slime Mold Time-Lapse: Nature's Creeping Growth

YouTube video by Connor Quimby

I discovered my first Slime Mould in October 2019. Neither fungi nor plant, they are Myxomycetes. These organisms go through different stages. At one stage in their life cycle they are single cell am...

The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...

A Slime Mould was spotted at Charnwood on 26 September 2026. Logged on Under the Hedge.

This feature-length documentary explores the work of fringe scientists, mycologists and artists, and their relationship with the extraordinary plasmodial slime mould.