Biologists, for their part, have used “the Blob” to refer to giant creeping slime mold and a large agglomeration of black algae off the coast of Alaska. For oceanographers, “the Blob” is a ...

But a slime mold isn’t actually a fungus in the sense of the word as we understand it. Instead, it’s more like an amoeba and often appears as a giant, icky blob. They don’t really identify ...