human remains, sea turtles, and so forth, but these models become increasingly inaccurate as the distance and duration of the drift increases. But barnacles frequently form colonies on floating ...

The geochemistry of barnacle shells provides clues as to where the barnacles have traveled. The barnacles attached to the already-recovered Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 debris offer up partial clues.

If you've ever been on a whale-watching tour and seen these majestic animals, you may have noticed barnacles growing on some ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to ...