New Zealand’s marine biodiversity checklist has been updated, representing an increase of 3,630 known living species since the turn of the century.

An Aussie woman has made an astonishing ancient discovery in the backyard of her inner-city rental home. During one particularly rainy day earlier this month, the Sydney renter noticed an ...

"Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic" upends expectations, artistic and otherwise.

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 ...

Just off Otago Peninsula lies one of the finest marine invertebrate communities in the world, and it’s almost unknown outside specialist academic circles. These “bryozoan thickets”, mostly ...

Biogenic calcite and aragonite are major constituents of many marine calcifying organisms such as foraminifera, mollusks, corals, echinoderms, and bryozoa [ 1]. The mineralized hard parts of these ...

Prep Count 2 1 Place Union County, Tennessee, United States, North America Published Name Tarphophragma multitabulata (Ulrich, 1886) See more items in Paleogeneral Types: Bryozoa Bryozoa Stenolaemata ...

Type Status paratype Place Santiago, Dominican Republic Published Name Metrarabdotos coatesi Cheetham et al., 2007 See more items in Paleogeneral Types: Bryozoa Bryozoa Gymnolaemata Cheilostomata Type ...

The plant-like stuff is actually a creature. It's called Sauerkraut Bryozoa. It's an invertebrate animal that feeds on plankton. No, it can't hurt you. But, it can be uncomfortable to step on and it ...

Sauerkraut bryozoa, sometimes called spaghetti bryozoa, will feed on microorganisms similar to what an oyster might do in the water, according to Tunnell.

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) is raising eyebrows after sharing photos of “strange jelly-like balls hanging from submerged tree limbs” in McGee Creek Reservoir.