with many species suffering from barnacles growing across their skin and sea lampreys harvesting blood with their sucker-like mouths. Lice live on many species of whales, infesting skin folds like ...

A group got the chance to spot sea creatures off the coast of California, and onlookers are calling the sightings "fantastic.

Gray whales’ characteristic white patches are mostly made of barnacles and lice, and the Marine Mammal Center reports each whale can carry 400 pounds of them. Yikes! Researchers aren’t clear ...

Happy to help, people then scrape lice from the whales. The parasites, which like crabs, attach themselves to whale barnacles and eat dead skin and scars. It's a symbiotic relationship ...

Whale lice are “highly specialized amphipod crustaceans ... The boopis has a taste for the humpback skin near “the blowhole, wounds, around barnacles and in the ventral grooves.” ...

Grays are so named by their gray and white patters that are unique to each whale. Their white patches are mostly made up of barnacles and lice. “In fact, gray whales can carry over 400 pounds of ...

Their giant gray bodies have a patchy appearance and are often covered with whale lice and barnacles. Like many types of whales, gray whales travel across the ocean each year. However, their ...

Kelp possess “antibacterial and antifungal qualities” making it a whale’s perfect “skin care routine” allowing for it to help in the process of removing “barnacles and lice that build ...