Incredible Way of Surviving
One of the most fascinating features of these colonies is their ability to produce structures called statoblasts. These tiny survival capsules can remain dormant when conditions become unfavorable and later help produce new colonies when the environment improves.
That helps explain why bryozoans can disappear during unfavorable seasons and then seem to mysteriously return later.
The Next Time You See Something Strange in the Water…
Don’t immediately assume it’s an alien organism or something dangerous.
Sometimes nature simply produces forms that look completely unfamiliar to us.
