She was found with a heavy load of epibiota including barnacles, algae, and other sea creatures ... Georgia for months. The... Mishi and her human had been best friends for 13 years; yes, since the ...

Yet, human activities and natural predators often tip the scales against them. Jet Skier rescues baby turtle covered in barnacles and ocean debris. Image by ra3i.al5il on Instagram. A recent ...

Barnacle Bill was treated for hypothermia in ... She is housed in a special tank, behind strict biosecurity measures, to limit human exposure. Bill has a regular regime of "enrichment" to try ...

In Finland, barnacle geese are responsible for most of ... reflecting the local intensity of this human-wildlife conflict. We need effective strategies to proactively mitigate the conflict and ...

They have swept-back spines that give the early 2000’s gel-spiked hair that human boys used to rock ... often come with an unwanted buddy – the barnacle. These are arthropods that look like ...

CORME, Spain, Dec 24 (Reuters) - On the craggy rocks on northwestern Spain's treacherous Costa da Morte (Death Coast), wetsuit-clad fishermen dodge crashing waves as they pick barnacles ...

But it also serves as a reminder of the human impact on marine life—many of the objects these barnacles latch onto are the result of pollution.

A new polymer removes biofilms—mats of microbes and their exuded substances—by mimicking a fluid oozed by barnacles (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09311). The material could ...