Scientists recently announced the discovery of a missing evolutionary link -- a fossil of the first known member of the modern bryozoans to grow up into a structure. Lurking in oceans, rivers and ...

Writing in Nature, Zhang et al. 1 present a collection of fossils from early Cambrian deposits of China and Australia that are unequivocally bryozoans, and thus present evidence that solves one of ...

One group of animals, called bryozoans, has until now appeared to be absent from the Cambrian Explosion. In new research, we took a closer look at some old fossils and discovered these tiny coral ...

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. This discovery ...

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 ...

While Protomelission gatehousei was first described in 1993, scientists didn’t categorize it as a bryozoan until 2021. Now, analyses of fossils even better preserved than those described ...

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 ...

Fossils which could represent the earliest known hard-bodied bryozoan were discovered in Nevada, USA, pushing back their evolution by over 10 million years. A newly discovered fossil could offer ...

Dr Martin Smith, a co-author of the paper from Durham University, says, 'This fossil is clearly not a normal bryozoan, and we've opened other possibilities for what it might be.' 'While it's difficult ...

Bryozoans may look superficially like coral ... or a catastrophic burial of living brachs. 5. #962 - How is this fossil preserved? What group does this species belong to? 6. #1520 - Look closely at ...