While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

Almost by definition, barnacles are immobile: these crustaceans cluster on surfaces such as whale heads, sea turtle shells, coastal rocks, and ship hulls. Once barnacle larvae mature, they travel on ...

Barnacles aren’t exactly renowned for their athleticism, staying glued in place for much of their lives. But turtle-riding barnacles are fidgety travelers. Barnacles start life as free-swimming larvae ...

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 ...

Thomas Oudman receives funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (grant number 019.172EN.011). The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and so are the environments of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Turku and the Natural Resources Institute Finland examined the foraging behaviour of barnacle geese in Northern Karelia, Finland. In this region, geese ...

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 ...

These barnacle legs look like a brush that might be used by a chimney sweep. Often attached to ships, barnacles use their hairy legs to comb through the water to collect organisms, mostly microscopic ...

DENVER — Barnacles can tell a whale of a tale. Chemical clues inside barnacles that hitched rides on baleen whales millions of years ago could divulge ancient whale migration routes, new research ...