Dazzling Macro Photographs Reveal the Magic of Tiny Fungi and Slime Molds

As Pollack discovered, the life cycle of slime molds is indeed fascinating and consists of two stages. During the first "amoeboflagellate" stage, slime molds typically exist as a single-celled organism, and grow and sexually reproduce by binary fission. This then allows the slime mold to proceed to the second "plasmodium" stage.