This is a preview. Log in through your library . Current issues are available on the Chicago Journals website: Read the latest issue.Originally published by the Marine Biological Laboratory, The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Settlement is an important process in the biphasic life histories of many marine invertebrates. Little is known regarding the fine-scale ...

This neon marvel highlights the muscles of a developing aquatic invertebrate known as a moss animal, also known as a bryozoan – a member of the phylum Bryozoa. The organism gets its common name from ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

Ferry, J. P., and Ketchum, B. H., in Marine Fouling and its Prevention, 285 (U.S. Naval Inst.: Annapolis, Md., 1952).

Looks can be deceiving - and creepy. A mysterious gelatinous blob resembling a “mutant brain” or “cursed gummy bear” has been spotted in a U.S. lake is no cause for concern, wildlife officials said.

The gelatinous-looking lumps are made up of thousands of tiny, filter-feeding creatures Michael Schindler/USFWS First, there were "Frankenstein rabbits," and now there are "cursed gummy bears." The ...

Bushes of sauerkraut bryozoan can get entangled in fishing nets and shrimp trawls and affect navigation through hull fouling and fouling of submerged structures and industrial pipes, according to the ...

The world’s oldest known mosquito larva from when the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber in what scientists described as a “rare stroke of luck”.

Sometime in April, a friend alerted me to some odd ball-shaped structures attached to a spruce log in Auke Lake. These are bryozoans, a type of minuscule aquatic animals. They constitute their own ...