Scientists have long known Fiordland's marine habitats are home to a diverse range of species, from bright orange cup corals ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

Like a champion sports team, some creatures really are greater than the sum of their parts. Known as colonial organisms, these bizarre beings appear to be a single, bounded organism – but are in ...

Bryozoans (simple aquatic invertebrates) join the goose barnacles, but the biodiversity remains relatively low. It is only in the third phase, after 210 days or so, that the biodiversity explodes.

Helfrich was beside himself. Statoblasts function as survival pods that allow bryozoans to persist in unpredictable freshwater environments. Bryozoans, an aquatic invertebrate that typically lives ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BUTTE — Research assistant Katherine Larson waded into the Madison River near the mouth ...

Sessile invertebrates perform essential ecological functions in coastal ecosystems. This study aimed to provide an in-depth analysis of the status and distribution of sessile invertebrates along the ...

This important study advances our understanding of early Cambrian cnidarian paleoecology and suggests that the reconstructed ancestral feeding and respiration mechanisms predate jet-propelled swimming ...

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