Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

A fossil bryozoan colony smaller than a grain of rice seen under the microscope. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Fossil bryozoan colony as seen under the microscope. Each of the oval shapes was once an individual zooid. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside in ...

Focus: investigating the timing of biomineral switches in Late Cretaceous bryozoans and their relationship to changing seawater chemistry Museum scientists are investigating the timing of a switch ...

And while scientists say they know what it is — a colony of bryozoans, slimy little hermaphrodites that cluster together to create an egg-like pod — they’re puzzled as to why the creepy ...

1. Modern desmosponge. Find the pores, and notice the thread-like spicules made of protein. This sponge grew up around a bryozoan colony, which you can see at the bottom and top of the specimen, and a ...

Consequences of coloniality: the influence of colony form and size on feeding success in the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.303:153-165 Pratt, M.C. (2004). The effect of zooid ...

These are animals that form a colony together: water bag bryozoans. ‘Multiple colonies can grow together into floating bags of up to 2 meters in diameter. In America they are also called “the ...

The unique find, made this month in Utrecht, turned out to be a colony 0f bryozoans—tiny aquatic invertebrates that cluster together to form jelly-like, often large, blob-like structures.