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

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 ...

Barnacles may have a small footprint, but their effect on global shipping is large. When ships’ hulls get coated with barnacles and other creatures, they use more fuel and eventually must be hauled ...

Syrena the loggerhead turtle was near death when she was rescued by marine biologist Tabitha Siegfried.

Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their bodies. A mysterious group called y-larvae has baffled scientists for over a ...

Secreting a fast-curing cement, these crustaceans latch themselves on to any hard surface - rocks, boats, whales and walls – and hold on for life. But don’t let these sticky sea creatures fool you.

SCRANTON – Parking scofflaws in Scranton will soon get stuck between a “Barnacle” windshield blocker and their unpaid ticket citations. Grow America, which is the outside operator of the city’s street ...