Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

If you’ve ever tried to remove a barnacle from a boat hull or piling, you learned they don’t go easily. You’re lucky if they go at all. Barnacles cling to ships, rocks and even to the skin of whales.

SANTA CRUZ – Marine critters have trouble living on the smooth, slippery pieces of plastic bobbing in the ocean. Barnacles help give them a foothold. But that could be a problem. Colonized plastic can ...

The deep ocean seems so remote that it is difficult to imagine any sort of human-generated change making an impact on deep-sea life. It is even more difficult to collect or examine evidence from the ...

Last week I sent Alex, one of my biologists in training, out to the beach to collect some seaweed for our displays. I told her to bring back anything interesting that she might find. She came back ...

SUSAN SCOTT courtesy susan scott Gooseneck barnacles have the appearance of eyeballs. We usually see gooseneck barnacles dead or dying on a beach because the offshore animals attach themselves to the ...

I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s how ...

A sea turtle struggling in the ocean off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates caught an amazingly lucky break. In what was surely a chance in a million, a jet skier noticed the ...

International researchers have argued that modelling of ocean barnacle shell formation and sea temperature could prove useful analytical data to locate the crash site of a missing Malaysia Airlines ...

The Green family in Wales was walking along the beach when they discovered a piece of ocean debris covered in gooseneck barnacles. The barnacles are a delicacy in Spain and Portugal and can demand ...