BRITS could be living near a goldmine after rare barnacles worth a fortune were found washed up on a UK coast. Ruth Crofts found thousands of extraordinary white-shelled creatures wrapped around the ...

There are hundreds of species of barnacle and they do some very peculiar things (from our perspective). The larvae swim freely, but when they are ready to settle, they glue their heads to a rock or ...

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 ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

Highly specialized coronulid barnacles may be able to identify and attach to the fins of quick-swimming dolphins, locating areas suited for finding food and developing larvae, according to a study ...

Last week I sent Alex, one of my biologists in training, out to the beach to collect some seaweed for our displays. I told her to bring back anything interesting that she might find. She came back ...