It’s not hard to understand why “Barnacles!” is SpongeBob SquarePants' go-to curse. For beach-goers, the hard-shelled critters can slice tender bare feet or gunk up an otherwise prize sand dollar. For ...
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 ...