Many-Headed Slime Mold (Physarum polycephalum) | Project Noah

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Photo by Tim Sage

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Description:

This Protist is being studied to redesign the Tokyo subway system, and can solve mazes.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/22/brainless-slime-mo…

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Physarum polycephalum

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