A mysterious yellowish single-celled creature that looks like a mushroom but behaves like an animal was presented at the Paris Zoo.
The creature was named slime in honor of the main character of the 1958 b-movie "Blob" ("Slime") about a green substance that flew from space, which absorbs the population of a small American town.
The slime has 720 sexes and an incredible ability to regenerate: if cut in half, it regenerates in two minutes. In addition, slime is able to learn, although it does not have a brain, and if you combine two slimes into one, they combine their knowledge and skills.
The mucus does not have legs or other limbs, but it can move at a speed of four centimeters per hour. Mucus does not have a mouth, eyes, stomach or other similar organs, but it finds, captures and digests food.
“We are sure that this is not a plant, but we do not know for sure whether it is a mushroom or an animal,” says Bruno David, head of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He believes that mucus is "one of the mysteries of nature."