Sometime in April, a friend alerted me to some odd ball-shaped structures attached to a spruce log in Auke Lake. These are bryozoans, a type of minuscule aquatic animals. They constitute their own ...

A freshwater bryozoan colony is seen in this photo from the U.S. Geological Survey. This species, called the “magnificent bryozoan,” is found throughout the eastern United States. Jeff and Carol ...

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 ...

Q: I enjoy recreating in the Delta, and occasionally on my walks I see these gelatinous brown blobs in the water that look a little like jellyfish. They seem to appear in summer. What are those? A: ...

The mysterious bryozoan is all around us, enchanting experts like Megan I. McCuller. Most people don’t know what bryozoans are, but experts like Megan I. McCuller at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A casual day of bass fishing on the Columbia River near Patterson turned up a bizarre, slimy surprise for two Yakima anglers last month. Jerry Wilken and Randy Swanson couldn’t reel ...