Some Barnacles Can Move Around to Improve Feeding Position. The Scientist spoke with marine biologist and barnacle researcher John Zardus about why turtle barnacles—previously thought to be ...

Barnacles are famed for not budging. But one species roams its sea turtle hosts. Being mobile may help the barnacles access better feeding spots on their turtle taxis ...

Barnacles are the bane of all boat owners. They are the reason for so many skinned knees and toes from walking on the rocks in the tidepools.

In the case of the gooseneck-barnacle species Pollicipes polymerus, this presented a mystery: although some barnacles are thought to self-fertilize, scientists have never been able to witness ...

3 of 14 The Northern Isles datacenter was attached to a ballast-filled triangular base for deployment 117 feet deep on the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland in 2018. The Project Natick team ...

By studying barnacle larvae using imaging techniques such as 2-photon microscopy, they discovered that the adhesion process begins with a droplet of one of the liquids – an oil – being ...