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 ...

For barnacles, which are stuck in one place, sex can be tricky. The shelled sea creatures have been known to use extra-long penises to fertilize their nearest neighbors. Now researchers have ...

The Symbiotic Relationship between Whales and Barnacles Barnacles and whales share a unique symbiotic relationship. Barnacles attach themselves to whales and travel with them throughout their lives, ...

Barnacles are a class of marine crustaceans with an external shell (there are over 1,200 different species). The creatures attach permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the ...