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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1h

This is a fungus

regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Unless your body is covered in decaying vegetation or algae the slime mold would starve, & as far as I know there are no recorded examples of a slime mold growing on a person. There are several recorded examples of them growing on live animals & inside some people's butts though

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful specimen. This species has a really distinctive cortex

regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

You got them pretty good! It's just luck whether or not any are open

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

The different types of amoeba

with an alternative branching order for Discobans

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid to ask them

Naegleria fowleri, the "brain eating amoeba." Photo by Francine Marciano-Cabral

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Badhamia melanospora likes the desert, although these stalks look a bit dark for that species

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Do it

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! It is an amoebozoan

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

Sick hypothallus

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

It is sometimes difficult to tell but in this case these are definitely a physarid slime mold

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

These are definitely physarids, so either Physarum, Nannengaella, or Badhamia. Because of the fairly thick chalk on the peridium I think these are probably not Badhamia, but without seeing the inside it is difficult or maybe impossible to ID for certain

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 1d

This is a physarid, probably Physarum. It is not a fungus but an amoebozoan:

6 kingdoms with multicellular life: Plants, Harosans, Discobans, Amoebozoans, Animals, and Fungi

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

Frogs are just coelacanths with fewer limbs

regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

This is actually a type of very large amoeba, & it is nontoxic. It is traditionally eaten & used as an antiseptic by some indigenous groups in Ecuador. It has been documented in the lab producing effective antimicrobial metabolites

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

Slime molds do not eat dead stuff, animal stuff, or plant stuff (some exceptions in the lab)

So they do not eat bones. But some species do enjoy eating the microbes that live in areas with bones, like Physarum apiculosporum growing among in the absolute fecal devastation of a cormorant colony

Physarum apiculosporum, from Lizárraga et al, 2016: http://dx.doi.org/10.5248/130.1073

Physarum apiculosporum, from Kosheleva et al., 2008: https://www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/sfdp/31-4.pdf

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regular slime guy @regularslimeguy.bsky.social · 2d

It has an internal skeleton of calcium carbonate, formed when the sporocarp pumps out water to dry the spores to maturity. This may help the spores disperse further. The bones contain molecular water & are also water absorbent, but how relevant this is to maturation is not clear