This newest exhibit of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on display to the public on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it.
"The blob is a living being which belongs to one of nature's mysteries", said Bruno David, director of the Paris Museum of Natural History, of which the Zoological Park is part.
"It surprises us because it has no brain but is able to learn (...) and if you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other," David added.
"We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really if it's an animal or a fungus," said David.
"It behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom (...) it has the behaviour of an animal, it is able to learn."