As innocuous-looking marine creatures, barnacles are capable of turning into a real nuisance for various types of sea life. Upon attaching to the body of an animal and growing there permanently, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

The great mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may be one step closer to being solved as scientists have found a new way to study the disappearance of MH370: barnacles. Barnacles are crustaceans ...

It’s one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history. In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing and lost communication ...