A barnacle, observed the nineteenth-century zoologist Louis Agassiz, is "nothing more than a little shrimp-like animal standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth." Yet ...

To the less-adventurous foreign diner visiting Spain, gooseneck barnacles are a slimy, salty, unappealing snack. But for a Galician, they are an expensive, tasty treat and their high price implies a ...

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 ...

Amazing feat Barnacles have the largest penises, relative to body size, in the animal kingdom, and now some are going into the record books for yet another feat: They can capture sperm directly from ...

Description: Also known as curl-footed barnacles, these animals are crustaceans, distantly related to crabs and lobsters, but goose barnacles attach themselves by a stalk to rocks. The tough, flexible ...

Plastic ocean trash creates new ecosystems as barnacles and other species cling to debris, raising concerns about invasive species transport. If you wanted to travel from Japan to California, you ...

Scientists have developed a new technique to reconstruct the path and origin of debris from the missing flight MH370 that was lost over the Indian Ocean in 2014 with 239 passengers. The method, ...

Acrothoracican barnacle borings are reported for the first time from the Louisiana Limestone (Upper Devonian-Famennian) of Missouri. Evidence of barnacle attachment to and excavation of a live host ...

By Christoph Otto 08 August 2013 • 7:00am On northern Spain’s Coast of Death local men risk their lives searching the jagged cliffs for gooseneck barnacles, a rare delicacy for which diners will shell ...

Barnacles are able to attach themselves to almost anything. They are found clinging to the hulls of ships, the sides of rock pools and even to the skin of whales. Just how they stick so steadfastly ...