Ever wander outside to find what looks like a shredded kitchen sponge — an alarming, shocking, bile yellow — roiling its way over your mulch? Is it an animal, plant, fungus, or maybe some unholy ...

This past summer, Laura Walker became the first scientist to collect slime molds from soils in Panama's Barro Colorado Nature Monument. In doing so, she became one of the first researchers to ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18 (UPI) --If you think Nickelodeon invented the slime attack, think again. The slime attack originated as a much more sinister deed, carried out by an unassuming tropical warm ...

With the first tropical storm of hurricane season under our belts, I was thinking about animals that might truly enjoy the rainy, quasi-tropical weather that a large storm brings. Naturally, I thought ...

Using nozzle-like extensions on the side of its head, a tropical velvet worm shoots streams of sticky slime when hunting or defending itself. Within the fluid are “nanoglobules,” tiny balls made of ...

The vomit slime mold — let’s call it Fuligo — is the one you are most likely to notice, especially on mulch. Many other slime molds are quite small, but you might see them on very damp, well-decayed ...