This newest exhibit of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on display to the public on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it. The "blob", slime mould (Physarum polycephalum), a single-celled organism forming over pieces of tree chunk, is pictured at the Paris Zoological Park during a press preview in Paris, France, October 16, 2019. ReutersThe blob also has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half. The "blob", slime mould (Physarum polycephalum), a single-celled organism forming over a piece of tree chunk, is pictured at the Paris Zoological Park during a press preview in Paris, France, October 16, 2019. ReutersThe blob was named after a 1958 science-fiction horror B-movie, starring a young Steve McQueen, in which an alien life form - The Blob - consumes everything in its path in a small Pennsylvania town.

Source: bd News24 October 16, 2019 17:03 UTC