In the waters of Kumejima Island, Japan, scientists have identified a new marine species: the skeleton panda sea squirt (Clavelina ossipandae). This t ...

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These zooids are genetically identical and join together to form a single organism. Each group of zooids is highly specialised and play specific roles in helping the entire creature survive.

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“The zooids act autonomously, but also in the service of the colony. They can’t ­survive on their own,” explains Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin, a marine scientist who specialises in all things blobbish.

People at the Oregon coast recently have been finding strange, semi-translucent objects that kind of look like pickles washed up on the shore, leaving them flabbergasted.

A “strange” blob was recently found clinging to a piece of aquatic research equipment, as if swallowing up the device, much to the surprise of wildlife experts, photos show. Researchers were ...

Wildlife experts found a jelly-like blob, a bryozoan colony, growing on a sound-emitting device, slowly swallowing it up, photos show.