The Blob – 720 Sex Organs But No Brain... Oops! What’s This?

A Paris zoo discover a mysterious new organism dubbed 'The Blob,' – it is a yellowish unicellular small living being that looks like fungus but acts like an animal.
This newest display of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on showcased to the public. It is an organism which has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can observe food and digest it.
Director of the Paris Museum of Natural History which is part of the Zoological Park, Mr. Bruno David said that -
"The blob is considered as a living being which belongs to one of nature's mysteries".
The blob is a slime stipple precisely known as Physarum Polycephalum. In contempt of their name, these organisms are not related with fungi, and form a genuine branch in the tree of life, besides plants, animals, and fungi. Slime molds cause very minor damage.
Physarum Polycephalum is a plasmodial slime mould. There is one riveting thing about plasmodial slime molds is that the millions of nuclei in a single plasmodium all divide at the same time.
Unlike most cells, which have only one nucleus, the blob holds millions of nuclei.
The Paris Zoological Park raises its organism in Petri dishes and fed it oatmeal, which it seemed to like, reported CNN's Julie Zaugg.
It eats fungal spores, bacteria, and other microbes and appears in yellow color.
Unique features of 'The Blob'
1. despite having no brain, the blob be blessed with the intelligence. If two blobs are consolidating, the one that has learned will impart its knowledge to the other.
2. You may won’t believe but blob also has almost 720 sexes, and it can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half.
3. The 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.
David also said that "We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really if it's an animal or a fungus,"
"It behaves very mysteriously for something that looks like a mushroom, but it has the behavior of an animal, and the shocking point is without brain it is able to learn.

By – Tripti Varun
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