- A slime mold, which is known officially as physarum polycephalum (or "the many headed slime") is neither a plant, an animal or a fungus. This non-neural organisms doesn't have two sexes -- male and female -- it has 720. And it can also split into different organisms and then fuse back together. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.0446 3 comments science
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