Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

Marine organisms that fasten to the bottoms of ships have always been a scourge to seafaring. By monitoring how the larvae of acorn barnacles go about finding suitable spots to attach themselves, ...

A tiny alien-like creature washed up on Padre Island National Seashore earlier this week, and lucky for us it was caught on camera. The seashore's official Instagram account posted the video Monday of ...

Sex allocation theory for simultaneous hermaphrodites predicts increases in relative allocation to male-specific function as competition for fertilizations increases. Theoretical models developed ...

Whitish barnacles encrust boats and nearly every other solid object that spends time submerged in salt water. Everything from whales and sea turtles to crabs must either scrape off these crusty ...

A barnacle, observed the nineteenth-century zoologist Louis Agassiz, is "nothing more than a little shrimp-like animal standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth." Yet ...

Barnacles were sampled from various microhabitats in the rocky intertidal at multiple sites in two years. At sites in which there were large differences among microhabitats in temperature profiles, ...

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.

There are hundreds of species of barnacle and they do some very peculiar things (from our perspective). The larvae swim freely, but when they are ready to settle, they glue their heads to a rock or ...