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Lichens are in many different clades with non-lichenized fungi so it's possible some basidio-lichen species are similar to basidio-not-lichen relatives. I don't know much about lichens. Most of them are not slimy

Cribraria cancellata!

If it's a fungus Myxarium is a possibility

from Swanberg & Anderson, 1981: https://doi.org/10.1016/0198-0149(81)90016-9

photo by Sylvan Le Bris

Photo by Eduard Marques: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138285977

photo by Marianne Annon

Collodarians are amoebas related to kelp & diatoms. Thousands of them hold hands to form jelly tubes that can grow up to 10 feet long. They keep a garden of algae in the center of the tube, but they also grab prey with their long creepy fingers. They mostly drift but some can contract, sink, or rise

Probably infinity times, because we've been told the opposite every day of our lives since we were tiny children, and we will never balance that out

But it's still a good thing to do

Looks like Ceratiomyxa porioides

The tops are hardened peridia (and maybe dead spore mass), probably from extra moisture. They are a pretty typical abberation in most Arcyria species

Loose pink fuzz sits on flat saucers; from Poulain, Meyer, & Bozonnet

This loose, orange species leaves many narrow empty cups like trumpets or champagne flutes; from Poulain, Meyer, & Bozonnet

The fuzz of A denudata stays attached, but in the lower right of your photo there are empty cups where the fuzz fell or blew away, so it is not very likely to be that species. An empty cup is called a "calyculus" in the literature, & you can see it closer in these photos of similar species:

It's going up up up into the sky. This slime mold is about to give birth

Nvm there are cups visible! Definitely not A denudata!

Very likely Arcyria denudata

It's not a slime mold

Your jelly is not the same as this mycelium, but jelly fungi can look quite gelotinous when immature. If yours is a jelly fungus, it will develop noticeably within 24 hours. Otherwise I think it is probably frog guts (or artificial). It is not a slime mold, and it is not a colony of cyanobacteria.

This looks like "star jelly," which is usually from a bird vomiting up the guts of an amphibian

Absolutely unbelievable

What a great photo of a great find

It doesn't really need training, it just does the thing all on its own

There's a 719 in 720 chance its not a "he"

Is it a basidio-lichen?

The starfox music?

Stemonitis species are usually clustered like this. Stemonitopsis are usually more distant from each other.

Forams remind me of Baba Yaga in her hut shuffling around on chicken legs

Microtubules are concentrated in the center. Actin is present on the edges and is actively moving the amoeba

Microtubules / Actin in the Amoebozoan amoeba Pellita digitata, from Kudryavtsev & Volkova, 2024: doi.org/10.21685/168...

Microtubules / Actin in the Amoebozoan amoeba Idionectes vortex. Graphic by Sebastian Hess, from https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12869

Microtubules / Actin in the Rhizarian amoeba Filoreta ramosa. Graphic by Sarah Guest, from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qz2x9ts

Actin / Microtubules (none) of the Discoban amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Graphic by Velle & Fritz-Laylin, from https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202007158

Microtubules & Actin imaged in an Amoebozoan, a Rhizarian, and a Discoban

Amoeba proteus, a fairly large amoebozoan. Photo by SmallRex: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amoeba_proteus_with_many_pseudopodia.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Here is a foraminiferan (or "foram"), a kind of Rhizarian amoeba that lives in a house it builds out of calcite, or sometimes glued together sand & detritus. Its arms are very thin and full of microtubules. Photo by Bärbel Hönisch

Here is a Discoban amoeba named Naegleria fowleri. The part that looks like a mouth is a mouth. The parts that look like eyes are also mouths. This amoeba sometimes eats human brains. Photo by Francine Marciano-Cabral

Photos of amoebas:

amoebozoan

rhizarian

discoban (SEM)

There are basically 3 types of amoeba: those more closely related to plants usually have microtubules in their pseudpods, those more closely related to animals only have microtubules in their center, and Discoban amoebas have no microtubules at all unless they grow a flagella. Discobans branched off early and may be closer to plants or basal to all eukaryotes.

They are kind of like... Super Vegan. They won't even hurt a plant. Some eat algae but they mostly eat bacteria & yeasts. Some eat processed oats or egg yolk in the lab, but they don't do it in nature & many won't even in the lab. Fimicolous slime molds only live on the dung of vegetarian animals

This was made by a single cell

a lovely specimen!