“No, you’re not looking at algae or frog eggs,” officials said, adding that the mysterious hitchhiker was identified as a bryozoan. “This blob of jelly is an animal — thousands of ...

It may sound like the start of spine-chilling horror film: a mysterious, sentient blob washes up on Texas ... the post — the critter is actually a bryozoan — a colony of algae-eating ...

Scanning electron micrograph of zooids of Watersipora grandis, a fossil cheilostome bryozoan. The specimen originates from the Pliocene Pinecrest Beds in Sarasota, Florida, North America. The ...