Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — ...

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Commonly referred to as sea pickles, pyrosomes are actually colonies of multi-celled animals called zooids. These colonies range in size depending on their particular species, with some being up ...

And while all of a siphonophore’s zooids share identical DNA, they still mutate to perform very different functions. An image of Marrus claudanielis, a sea creature made up of multiple organisms.

These workers are fed by still other zooids that collect food. The creatures, some of which can grow up to 2 millimeters, feed on tiny plants smaller than they are, scientists say.

The purple siphonophore, which is a colony of smaller, interconnected organisms known as zooids, was found in the Gulf of Mexico News Steve Kelly 17:46, 17 Sep 2014 Updated 17:49, 17 Sep 2014 ...

The Portuguese Man O’ War is a remarkable colonial organism, made up of various highly specialized organisms called zooids. Aaron Ansarov’s photographs capture the structures of these zooids ...

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The zooids can reproduce by cloning, so the colony can regenerate injured parts and theoretically live forever, shrinking and growing based on available food and physical disturbance.

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IN a recent publication (“Sea-temperature, Breeding, and Distribution in Marine Animals,” Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., vol. xii., No. 2, p. 351) the present writer showed that there was every ...