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 ...

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 ...

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.

The geochemistry of barnacle shells provides clues as to where the barnacles have traveled. The barnacles attached to the already-recovered Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 debris offer up partial clues.

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 ...