Inks Lake State Park in Burnet County said in a Facebook post that the visitors are actually bryozoans, a type of moss-like invertebrate that forms colonies in lakes, rivers and other waterways.

I would freak out,” declared a third. As it turns out, these slimy spheres are actually native aquatic microorganisms known as bryozoans. Colloquially called “moss animals,” these ...

Focus: contributing to the understanding of bryozoans that live around the British Isles We are extending our knowledge of bryozoans that live around the British Isles, and increasing public awareness ...

The collection is representative of all continents. Fossil bryozoans from the Miocene of Touraine, France, mounted and annotated by William Lonsdale for the famous geologist Sir Charles Lyell Scanning ...

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 ...

My work extends beyond the limits of microevolution by including processes that encompass many species and span deep time. In my work, I focus on the macroevolution of colonial organisms, and I ...