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Paris Zoo Unveils the ‘Blob,’ a Mysterious Organism That Can Learn With No Brain

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“If you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other,” said the director of the Paris Museum of Natural History.

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Paris’ Zoological Park unveiled a mysterious new organism on Wednesday that’s been dubbed the “blob,” after the 1958 science-fiction horror movie in which an alien life form consumes everything in its path.

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