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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you place pretty much any type of solid material in the ocean, barnacles will firmly attach themselves to it. If you were to try applying a glue to any of those materials while they were underwater ...

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 goose barnacles might look something from an alien planet but they’re actually a rare delicacy and one of the most expensive food ingredients in the world Strange “goose barnacles” that were ...

Investigators don't have access to the black box from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but barnacles could be the next best thing. The disappearance of the plane and its 239 passengers back in March of ...

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 ...