Close-up of a plasmodial slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) creeping over a pine bark in a Norfolk pine forest. This single-celled organism with mult

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Close-up of a plasmodial slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) creeping over a pine bark in a Norfolk pine forest. This single-celled organism with multiple nuclei forages for food by sending out branches (plasmodia) from a central location.

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