Slithersucker

The evolution of the slime mold 200 million years in the future. --- Slithersucker fact file: Time zone: 200 million years Type Slime mould Size Variable Ancestor Slime mould Lives On tree branches Eats Forest flish Eaten by Megasquid -- from choice -- so that it can be transported Behaviour The slithersucker is a slime mould, a very primitive form of life which is neither animal nor plant but a large, organised community of microbes. It lives in the lichen trees of the Northern Forest and is an efficient predator. At certain times of the day, it oozes along a branch and dangles strands of itself below, forming a sticky curtain. It is able to move from tree to tree by living in a megasquid's mantle and then erupting out. Feeding: A passing forest flish is easily trapped in the slithersucker's, slimy net. Once the flish has been caught, the slithersucker slides off the branch and crashes to the forest floor. There it secretes a digestive acid which slowly dissolves the helpless forest flish.