While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

Interpreting Barnacle Fossils to Track Whale Migration By examining the barnacles on the fossilized whale bone, scientists were able to determine the migration route of the whale. Isotopic signatures ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...

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 ...