This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

Upon arrival, responders found the large turtle weighed down and debilitated, covered in epibiota—marine organisms that live on other animals. This included layers of a variety of algae, acorn ...

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 might look like jagged little rocks, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life. Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.