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 ...

If an enemy you were previously safe from turned up in your neighborhood, what would you do? That's a problem currently being faced by barnacles in northern Mexico, which are growing sideways to ...

It's hard enough to find a mate when you're able to get up and move around. But just imagine the difficulties the poor barnacle faces, permanently glued to an underwater rock or hull. Most sessile ...

Gooseneck barnacles are one of the most expensive seafoods in the world. Just 1 pound can cost over $100 in Spain and Portugal, where the barnacles are considered a delicacy. But getting your hands on ...

There are hundreds of species of barnacle and they do some very peculiar things (from our perspective). The larvae swim freely, but when they are ready to settle, they glue their heads to a rock or ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Highly specialized coronulid barnacles may be able to identify and attach to the fins of quick-swimming dolphins, locating areas suited for finding food and developing larvae. Highly specialized ...

When rescuers reached her, it was heartbreaking to see a sea turtle so heavily encrusted with barnacles that she could barely move through the water. She was weak, anemic, and exhausted, yet there was ...