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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of prehistoric "moss animals" called Bryozoa - tentacled animals that lived in massive colonies - are not as ancient as previously thought; the earliest fossils of these creatures are ...

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 ...

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.

Brachiopod, bryozoan, and coral fossils can be found in nearly all parts of the state and of these, bryozoans tend to make up the bulk of what I find in central Ohio. Brachiopods resemble bi-valve ...

Instead of the tentacles we would expect to see in Bryozoans, we discovered simple leaf-like flanges – and realised we were not looking at fossil animals, but seaweeds Prof Zhang Xiguang ...

“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 ...