苔藓虫个虫（zooids）并不完全独立，所有群落都有“自养个虫”（autozooids），负责喂养、排泄和为群落提供营养；有些个虫甚至能当作孵化受精卵的 ...

Cute but not cuddly, a colony of sea squirts dubbed “Skeleton panda ascidian” by divers after being discovered in waters off Okinawa Prefecture has been identified as a new species. The sea ...

Bryozoans are mysterious clumps of creatures known as zooids. They are a fraction of a millimetre long and form a slimy mass when together. The animals originally come from the eastern part of the US.

Bryozoans are zooids with both female and male sex organs, which allows them to clone themselves. There are nearly 6,000 recorded species of the obscure beings — ideally not hanging around in ...

Often mistaken for jellyfish, the Portuguese Man O'War is actually a siphonophore - a colony of tiny zooids all working together as if one animal. While they're undeniably stunning to look at ...

Bryozoans are tiny animals, no larger than four millimetres, which form colonies of numerous connected units called zooids. They are invertebrates and have male and female reproductive organs ...

The Ink In This Tattoo Is Made Out Of Living Cells A.K.A. bacteria. This Swarm Of Little Robots Is A Totally New Kind Of Interface They're called Zooids, and they could replace many of the screens ...

Why they're awesome: The largest animal on Earth is thought to be the blue whale, but these strange sea creatures can grow ...

What strategies do parasites use to disperse with their bryozoan hosts? Can bryozoans escape parasites by dispersing to new sites? Bryozoans form colonies composed of tiny (~1mm) iterated modules ...

Attached to the nectosome is the siphosome, or main stem, with numerous iterative units - the cormidia – along its length. A cormidium contains zooids for feeding (gastrozooids), others for buoyancy ...