whooz lower

slime mold:

          "It is not pretty, unless you like yellow, and it soon gets uglier"

          "dog vomit is a great name for it" 




          "nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to heal itself in two minutes if cut in half"




          "redefining what you need to have to qualify as intelligent"




          "able to compute an efficient network in less time than humans could"




          "a taxonomic group reserved for 'everything we don't really understand'"

pond scum:

          "a fertile breeding ground where leeches thrive"

          "capable of releasing all sorts of deadly poisons into the environment"

          "quite the opposite of appetizing"

          "a tiny, relatively simple organism that doesn't even have a brain"

          "readily processed into the raw material used in fuel to power cars, trains, and planes"

          "indisputably strange behavior"

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