Right now, the Web is more like a gigantic, sprouting slime mold.

That's much more than a slime mold, say, or a bacterium.

There are few creatures more remarkable than the lowly slime mold.

Each experiment had the slime mold conquering the world in a slightly different way.

The slime mold was started at Beijing and let loose.

Initially, the slime mold dispersed evenly around the oat flakes, exploring its new territory.

Frankly, I think you need a quick lesson in slime mold facts of life.

First things first: what exactly is a slime mold?

After about a day, the slime mold had constructed a network of interconnected nutrient-ferrying tubes.

A mature true slime mold is one enormous cell-eas-ilyvisibleto the naked human eye.

The Blob is a species of slime mold.

But is the slime mold really a creature?

Could have just asked a slime mold.

So sometimes a slime mold is single.

In total, the slime mold approximated about 76 percent of the Silk Road and Asian Highway routes.

There are a couple of different types; you happen to be what's known as a true slime mold.