A siphonophore (order Siphonophorae) is a colony of genetically identical polyps, or zooids, that acts like one organism. Each zooid performs a function essential to the survival of the whole ...

These creatures are not just single organisms but rather a colony of specialized, self-replicating units called zooids, which work together as a single entity. Virmani described the image of the ...

This Swarm Of Little Robots Is A Totally New Kind Of Interface They're called Zooids, and they could replace many of the screens in your life. Fastcompany.com adheres to NewsGuard’s nine ...

Related: Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm dancing in the twilight zone Flying spaghetti monsters are colonial organisms made up of thousands of multicellular "zooids" that ...

On a microscopic level, Conservationists noted that individual bryozoans - zooids - look like anemones as their organs are in ...

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 ...

Another fascinating aspect of bryozoans is their prehistoric origins. "Marine bryozoans can be found in the fossil record dating back more than 400 million years—it's amazing that we can still ...