The Museum holds the best collection of fossil bryozoans in the world, with more than 5,000 type and figured specimens. The collection contains an estimated 1,500,000 specimens, making it one of the ...

Focus: investigating the timing of biomineral switches in Late Cretaceous bryozoans and their relationship to changing seawater chemistry Museum scientists are investigating the timing of a switch ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...

"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 ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...

When Phil Stokes discusses trilobites, mucrospirifer brachiopods or bryozoans, his eyes light up and his speech accelerates. He is clearly the right man for his job: running one of the nation’s ...