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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The bryozoan Membranipora membranacea possesses a long-lived planktonic larva and occurs in encrusting colonies in the Macrocystis pyrifera ...

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 ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

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.

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

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 ...

ALPENA, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – A large, clear yellowish, glob located in Michigan's Thunder Bay along Lake Huron may "look strange," but U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff was pleased to share its ...