{"id":97552,"date":"2019-10-17T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-blob-paris-zoo-unveils-unusual-organism-which-can-heal-itself-and-has-720-sexes"},"modified":"2019-10-17T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T00:03:05","slug":"the-blob-paris-zoo-unveils-unusual-organism-which-can-heal-itself-and-has-720-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-blob-paris-zoo-unveils-unusual-organism-which-can-heal-itself-and-has-720-sexes","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018blob\u2019: Paris zoo unveils unusual organism which can heal itself and has 720 sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-blob-paris-zoo-unveils-unusual-organism-which-can-heal-itself-and-has-720-sexes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is bright yellow, can creep along at a speed of up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) per hour, can solve problems even though it doesn\u2019t have a brain and can heal itself if it is cut in two.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the \u201cblob,\u201d an unusual organism which will go on display Saturday at the Paris Zoological Park, as part of a first-of-its-kind exhibition intended to showcase its rare abilities.<\/p>\n<p>The slime mold, which is known officially as physarum polycephalum (or \u201cthe many headed slime\u201d) is neither a plant, an animal or a fungus. <strong> <\/strong>It doesn\u2019t have two sexes \u2014 male and female \u2014 it has 720. And it can also split into different organisms and then fuse back together, according to a press release from the Zoological Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is bright yellow, can creep along at a speed of up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) per hour, can solve problems even though it doesn\u2019t have a brain and can heal itself if it is cut in two. Meet the \u201cblob,\u201d an unusual organism which will go on display Saturday at the Paris Zoological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}