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 ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

Two new species of the gorgonian inhabiting barnacles—Conopea saotomensis and Conopea fidelis—have been collected from the area surrounding the historically isolated volcanic islands of São Tomé and ...

Giant teeth from a 40-foot (12-meter)-long shark and portions of what could turn out to be an entire whale skeleton are among the hundreds of fossils being carefully unearthed at a dam construction ...

The Navy announced this week that it has finally solved an old nautical problem: how to keep barnacles off the bottom of a ship. The solution: a new plastic paint which makes bottoms so slick that for ...

A little fact precious to ship operators was reported last week by Western Reserve University’s Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, ...