Fossil barnacles reveal whales have followed same migration routes for hundreds of millennia. Chemical traces in fossils allow scientists to track movements of ancient ocean giants.

Whale barnacles add new shell throughout the year that has been shown to reflect, through oxygen isotope ratios, ... Fossil barnacles, the original GPS, help track ancient whale migrations ...

Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2019; 201808759 DOI: 10. ...

Deep time tracking devices: Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations Peer-Reviewed Publication. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

Exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tiny worms, starfish, sponges, barnacles and other creatures with no modern parallel discovered at a quarry in Wales are painting a picture of life on Earth ...

Using the isotopes of fossil barnacles stretching back millions of years, and mapping them onto the ancient ocean, Taylor hopes to find out just what the whales of a bygone Earth were up to.

DENVER — Barnacles can tell a whale of a tale. Chemical clues inside barnacles that hitched rides on baleen whales millions of years ago could divulge ancient whale migration routes, new ...

A new study of kelp fossils from the coast of Washington state show that kelp forests, which host all manner of marine life, developed tens of millions of years ago.

Rare whale tooth fossil reveals secrets of ancient Iberian people - Discovery enhances understanding of ancient human use of ivory ...

Barnacles held an immense fascination for Darwin. It was through some rather chance events that he ended up being the world’s expert on this fascinating group. He created 4 volumes of masterpieces ...

A barnacle, observed the nineteenth-century zoologist Louis Agassiz, ... and fossil record. Barnacles are actually crustaceans -- close relatives of crabs, lobsters, and shrimp ...

Exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tiny worms, starfish, sponges, barnacles and other creatures with no modern parallel discovered at a quarry in Wales are painting a picture of life on Earth ...