The origins of an ancient animal lineage are being called into question after new fossils were uncovered in China.. Back in 2021, Protomelission gatehousei was named the oldest bryozoan, a member of a ...

In 2021, for instance, scientists decided that a 515-million-year-old fossil showed the earliest evidence of an animal group called the bryozoans, named Protomelission gatehousei.

A 515-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the earliest known animal from a group called the bryozoans might actually be a seaweed. Bryozoans, commonly called moss animals, are tiny, coral ...

Bryozoans are also fossils. Bryozoan colonies have been around for ages, with their fossils being found with over 15,000 species. But what do bryozoan colonies look like as fossils?

If borne out, the new find means that the oldest unequivocal bryozoan fossils that are known are only about 480 million years old. That, Smith contends, ...

Research carried out by experts from Durham University, U.K., and Yunnan University and Guizhou University in China found that the fossils, that were previously thought to be the oldest Bryozoans ...

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 ...

Here's what to know about the bryozoan in Ohio. It could actually a colony of small animals. Meet the bryozoan, the mysterious, microscopic animal living in Ohio's bodies of water ...