Prized sea snails, barnacles and hermit crabs have been reduced to piles of broken shells by the lightning-quick claws of a mantis shrimp -- a voracious, saltwater scourge that for months has ...

For the past few years, McIntire has been making epoxy resin models of various intertidal animals—from fast-moving crabs to slower snails and limpets to immobile animals like barnacles—and ...

Dead zones are back in the Chesapeake Bay, or so I've read -- vast swaths of water where oxygen disappears in summer and nothing can survive. The trouble is, dead zones move around.

Plastic bodies are covered in barnacles, sticky little crustaceans related to crabs. Yet smiles remain painted on their faces, which feels both vaguely sinister and like a hint of a previous life.

Take the tour to come across all sorts of sea life: scuds, isopods, barnacles, crabs, limpets, snails, stars, sponges, baby lobsters, and more.

“This patient washed in with a variety of algae, acorn barnacles, gooseneck barnacles, worms, crabs, skeleton shrimp, bryozoans, and other small invertebrates.

Barnacles may be small, but they're tenacious. And once they've attached to your hull, ... Barnacles (Balanus glandula) are tiny crustaceans related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimps.

Barnacles, which are a type of crab, are often mistaken for mollusks. Sea squirts, which are invertebrates, are part of the same phylum as humans.