Believe it or not, gooseneck barnacles are edible and delicious, even if they look like space aliens. With a sharp, claw-like shell and a long, neck-like stalk, anyone would be forgiven for thinking ...

Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their ...

These are the larvae, the juvenile form of this organism. We know how this story goes: larvae metamorphose into adults, ...

A large collection of unusual looking crustaceans washed up on a Sussex shore. Photographs taken last week captured the goose ...

Photographs taken last week captured the goose barnacles on the beach between Pagham and Aldwick. Goose barnacles often live attached to rocks, ships, ropes, or flotsam, and are described as ...

Have you ever noticed tiny, white, volcano-like bumps on a boat hull, a rock, or even a sea turtle, and wondered what they are and how they stay glued even after being in water for so long? Barnacles ...

Yachts by their very nature are big investments. Beyond price, is the issue of maintenance. A good crew is needed to keep vessels in ship shape. But time spent in the water takes its toll on a yacht's ...

Researchers in Texas who survey the coasts for sea life and often stare down a creepy doll with barnacles for eyes have auctioned off hundreds of items they find to help fund the rehabilitation of sea ...

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It remains one of the most perplexing aviation mysteries in history. In the years since the ...

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.