I probably shouldn’t get quite so excited about the life I find in my wood pile. I was all set to write about baby turtles this week when, while neatening up the debris from last year’s wood pile, I ...

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

The bare woods of late fall in Westborough harbor odd forms of life known as slime molds, including those with strange, descriptive names like wolf’s milk slime and pretzel slime. A glimpse of these ...

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Slime molds are among the world’s strangest organisms. Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba. As single-celled organisms, they have neither neurons nor brains. Yet for ...

This shimmering, metallic structure isn’t a new configuration of carbon nanotubes. It’s actually a slime mold, which grows on dead plants. Not only does it look alien, but it has a very alien ...

The organism known as Physarum polycephalum is part of the slime mold family and looks straight out of a horror movie. A Paris zoo is displaying a moving, problem-solving slime mold that is capable of ...

Q. Every year about this time master gardeners start getting questions, like, “What’s the stuff that looks like dog vomit all over my lawn,” or “What is this patch of gel filled marbles on my mulch,” ...

DEAR JESSICA: I am finding these throughout my garden, especially in shady areas. They are pretty bright pink, and I have no idea what they are. -- Nick Mazzaferro, Stony Brook DEAR NICK: That pink, ...

Can you identify this nasty yellow stuff that is growing on the base of my Japanese yew and on the mulch in the garden? How do I prevent this from growing? Kim Minor This rather gross-looking mass is ...