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 ...

While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

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 ...

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 ...

These barnacle legs look like a brush that might be used by a chimney sweep. Often attached to ships, barnacles use their hairy legs to comb through the water to collect organisms, mostly microscopic ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hitchhiking on the surface of a boat hull can ...

If it is a female, this is the stage when it hooks itself onto its victim – in most cases the common shore crab. When firmly ...