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 ...

Bryozoans (moss animals) are a group of aquatic invertebrates that are found in great variety throughout the world, with well over 100 species in Sweden alone. Yet little is known about them.

Most groups of modern animals had their beginnings more than half a billion years ago in an amazing evolutionary event known as the Cambrian Explosion. This wasn’t the kind of explosion caused by a ...

Right now in your nearest pond, lake, or other moderately sized body of fresh water, there could lurk something garishly green, bulbous, and slick, made from the assemblage of thousands of little ...

The year of the blob is over. After mystifying visitors to Stanley Park all summer, the gooey, gelatinous colonies of tiny creatures known as bryozoans are dying off in Lost Lagoon. Just like the ...

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BANGOR, Maine — Ever see something so martian-looking you wonder if you've somehow come across a brand new species, or a probe from another galaxy? That's what happened to Stacey Feldmus last week at ...

A colonial animal which was among the first to develop an exoskeleton may have been discovered. Fossils which could represent the earliest known hard-bodied bryozoan were discovered in Nevada, USA, ...