While you’ll find several different slime origin stories around the internet, we think a combination of two interviews with people who were there gives the fullest picture of how it all started.

Book of the Week. Sirine Saba reads from Susanne Wedlich's ground-breaking new book which leads us on a journey through the three-billion-year history of slime.

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