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 ...

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 flaperon was covered in barnacles and as soon as I saw that, I immediately began sending emails to the search investigators because I knew the geochemistry of their shells could provide clues ...

They found the barnacles may be old enough to have formed ... space on Blue Origin flight May 31 (UPI) -- Blue Origin's 12th human spaceflight carried the first New Zealander into space and ...

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 ...

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.

The method, described in the journal AGU Advances,involves analysing the shell chemistry of barnacles to determine the environmental circumstances such as the temperature and ocean drift ...

Better still, the flaperon carried with it evidence that may help locate the plane and solve the mystery once and for all: a population of gooseneck barnacles called Lepas anatifera. Like the ...