For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution. Around 540 million years ago, a sudden, astonishing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia ...

Most groups of modern animals had their beginnings more than half a billion years ago in an amazing evolutionary event known as the Cambrian Explosion. Many familiar features of today's animals arose ...

The specimens may be an ancient type of algae, not creatures known as bryozoans A species that lived about 520 million years ago and was thought to be the oldest known bryozoan is instead a type of ...

A new study has revealed that a group of prehistoric sea creatures is not as ancient as we thought—their earliest fossils are actually seaweeds. Research carried out by experts from Durham University, ...

Evidence for sublethal predation and regeneration among living and fossil ascophoran bryozoans / Björn Berning -- Bryozoa from the Ordovician (Caradoc) of Courtown, County Wexford, Ireland / Caroline ...

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 ...

SERC copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. Contents Volume 1. Biology, ecology and natural history -- 1.

WE may congratulate Dr. J. W. Gregory in having completed this volume before he left this country to take up the geological professorship at Melbourne. The value of this, and similar works, is ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, bryozoans seemed oddly absent from the Cambrian explosion, the burst of ...