Another slime mold you may have seen is wolf’s milk (Lycogala epidendrum), often found on soil and mulch. Before aging, it lives as small globes of bright bubblegum pink, fading to beige. One of the ...

I probably shouldn’t get quite so excited about the life I find in my wood pile. I was all set to write about baby turtles this week when, while neatening up the debris from last year’s wood pile, I ...

What is slime mold and what should you do about it? originally appeared on Dengarden. If you’ve recently made the (mildly horrifying) discovery of a slimy growth in your mulch that looks like ...

Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...

Single-celled amoebae can remember, make decisions and anticipate change, urging scientists to rethink intelligent behavior. An article by Scientific American. Gardeners sometimes encounter them in ...