An Aussie woman has made an astonishing ancient discovery in the backyard of her inner-city rental home. During one ...

Kowalewski and his colleagues have previously conducted extensive research showing that the fossils of mollusks ... encrusting bryozoans, olive-shaped sea squirts, bacterial colonies and algal ...

The global community of bryozoan experts is about 100 people and many of those are palaeontologists (interested in fossils and extinction). That’s because bryozoans regularly turn up in the ...

It showcases fossils from the Talchir Formation, the earliest phase of the Permian, including bivalves (Aviculopecten, Eurydesma), gastropods, brachiopods, crinoids, and bryozoans. Students ...

The fossil also appears to contain bryozoans, Olsen says, very tiny creatures that are also called moss animals, but it's unclear if they were part of the fish's attempted meal in this case.

When Phil Stokes discusses trilobites, mucrospirifer brachiopods or bryozoans, his eyes light up and his speech accelerates. He is clearly the right man for his job: running one of the nation’s ...

“But before this study, it hadn’t really been investigated using the fossil record.” The study casts a spotlight on a little-known group of aquatic animals called bryozoans. They tend to be small and ...

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? Though they’re not as sturdy as coral ...

Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa (Polyzoa) in the Department of Geology, British Museum [Natural History). The Cretaceous Bryozoa (Polyzoa). Vol. 3. The Cribrimorphs.—Part 1. By Dr. W.

A recent study of bryozoan fossils—shown in this scanning electron micrograph—found that longer-term evolutionary patterns can match up with shorter-term changes. Image credit: Emanuela Di Martino/the ...