Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They're easy to overlook: pale nodules encrusting dock pilings, mangrove roots and fellow creatures – sea turtles, horseshoe crabs ...

Barnacles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch are attaching themselves to trash and eating little plastic particles. Researchers don’t yet know the implications of these findings, but it’s a safe bet ...

Barnacles are a serious problem for the U.S. Navy. A billion-dollar problem. Encrustations of hard foulers—like barnacles and other sea life—are estimated to cost the Navy $56 million per year in ...

Whale barnacles line the edges of the flukes of a humpback whale. Image via Blue Ocean Whale Watch. New research used barnacles that hitch rides on the backs of humpback and gray whales to help ...

Barnacles—a type of marine crustacean—are highly adaptable animals. Unlike many other groups that prefer quieter waters, they like areas with a lot of activity, are hardy against dry spells that ...

A newly recovered ocean buoy near Mauritius provides Jeff Wise with surprising evidence that could influence how researchers ...

Barnacles that hitch rides on the backs of humpback and gray whales not only record details about the whales’ yearly travels, they also retain this information after they become fossilized, helping ...