Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...
Almost by definition, barnacles are immobile: these crustaceans cluster on surfaces such as whale heads, sea turtle shells, coastal rocks, and ship hulls. Once barnacle larvae mature, they travel on ...
Last week I sent Alex, one of my biologists in training, out to the beach to collect some seaweed for our displays. I told her to bring back anything interesting that she might find. She came back ...
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 ...
Last week I sent Alex, one of my biologists in training, out to the beach to collect some seaweed for our displays. I told her to bring back anything interesting that she might find. She came back ...
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