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 ...

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 ...

IT’S as if the rock is crying. Sandstone blocks near Lakes Entrance on the coast of Victoria, south-east Australia, are covered with barnacles that look like they are spilling tears. It now seems that ...

It’s a weeping rock. Sandstone blocks near the Lakes Entrance holiday resort on the coast of Victoria, south-east Australia, are covered with barnacles that look like they are spilling tears. How did ...

They may be one of the heartiest intertidal animals that you walk right past – except if you step on them the wrong way. Barnacles are like the armored soldiers of the sea, closing their six trapdoor ...

Compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to the rock, barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal for their size - up to 8 times their body length - so they can find and fertilize distant ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There's been a rich debate in marine ecological circles about what happens to a key food source along rocky coastlines dominated by upwelling. The literature is ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

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 ...

Barnacles might look like jagged little rocks, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life. Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.