If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

Tiny zooids known as kelp lace bryozoan live in a colony on kelp leaves, or blades, that when combined resemble mold and are ...

Distribution over Space and Time in Epizoobiontic North Sea Bryozoans. Distribution of North Sea Bryozoans / Franziska Bitschofsky -- The World's Oldest-Known Bryozoan Reefs: Late Tremadocian, ...

Bryozoans, or ectoprocts, are colonial invertebrates that occupy a unique position within the Lophotrochozoa. Their modular construction, characterised by repeated zooidal units, allows for both ...

The mysterious bryozoan is all around us, enchanting experts like Megan I. McCuller. Most people don’t know what bryozoans are, but experts like Megan I. McCuller at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences ...

Sometime in April, a friend alerted me to some odd ball-shaped structures attached to a spruce log in Auke Lake. These are bryozoans, a type of minuscule aquatic animals. They constitute their own ...

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First, there were "Frankenstein rabbits," and now there are "cursed gummy bears." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shared a reminder on Facebook about the odd things you can find living in U ...

Bushes of sauerkraut bryozoan can get entangled in fishing nets and shrimp trawls and affect navigation through hull fouling and fouling of submerged structures and industrial pipes, according to the ...

Thirteen bryozoan species are described from the Brewer Dock (Hickory Corners) Member of the Reynales Formation (lower Silurian, Aeronian) at the locality Hickory Corners in western New York, USA.

The gelatinous-looking lumps are made up of thousands of tiny, filter-feeding creatures First, there were "Frankenstein rabbits," and now there are "cursed gummy bears." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...