A whale covered in thousands of barnacles faced serious health challenges before a diver stepped in to help in a dramatic rescue effort. The video captures the diver’s patient and precise work ...

Barnacles pose a clear and present danger to ... gaining a rarely seen view of the empty structure. This stint isn’t for the faint of heart — you shouldn’t be afraid of heights or confined ...

Once there, it absorbs nutrients through the root-like filaments. Two barnacles in cross-section: Analesma (left) and Lepas (right). Ci = cirri; m = mouth; pd = peduncle; r = rootlets; ma = mantle.

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

The tiny turtle was covered in barnacles and had a crab attached to its shell. Barely able to swim, it would likely have drowned had the man not stopped to remove the barnacles before releasing ...

With a search area thousands of miles in size, there is one thing going for any renewed effort, at least from a barnacle point of view. The ocean temperatures in the Indian Ocean can change ...