Researchers say they're seeing more of these colorful blobs growing on docks, but they're not the only invasive marine ...

A loggerhead turtle is recovering at the Gulf Center after being found stranded and heavily encrusted in Sargent.

The turtle arrived coated with various marine organisms, including algae, acorn and gooseneck barnacles, worms, crabs, skeleton shrimp, bryozoans ... a threatened species both federally and ...

Others are suddenly exposed to predators as the net sweeps away their hiding places, the complex structures created by organisms such as soft corals, brachiopods, bryozoans and crinoids.

Photograph by David Doubilet The two predominant species of sargassum in the Sargasso ... more than a thousand calcifying worms, and abundant bryozoans, diminutive copepods, and other planktonic ...

“Interestingly, this past October we stumbled on an unusual species called Bryozoans in Tiny Marsh,” Codd says. “Evidently these colonies of microscopic animals need well oxygenated water to thrive.

Acanthopleura haddoni, tropical species of chiton. The fauna of the Red Sea. A marine molluscs on a rock. Image via depositphotos Chitons can be found stuck to rocks, grazing on algae, bryozoans, and ...

But four non-native species have been reported free living in Antarctic waters and were probably introduced through human activities: the great spider crab, the brown bryozoan/common Bugula, the vase ...