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Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...

Fouling of hulls is a major problem for world shipping – for private leisure craft as well as large cargo ships – with barnacles being a major culprit. It reduces the performance of vessels and ...

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Barnacles may have a small footprint, but their effect on global shipping is large. When ships’ hulls get coated with barnacles and other creatures, they use more fuel and eventually must be hauled ...

Intensifying ultraviolet radiation is blinding barnacle larvae, researchers have found, threatening their survival and potentially disrupting entire coastal ecosystems. The tiny crustacean larvae swim ...

Two new species of sessile barnacles were discovered in the waters of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. The newly described animals seem to demonstrate astonishing preference to a ...

The Coronula diadema, or whale barnacle, is known to live only on the skin of humpback whales. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...

The substance medetomidine has proved effective in preventing fouling of ship bottoms. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now identified the gene that causes the barnacle to react to the ...

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

The substance medetomidine has proved effective in preventing fouling of ship bottoms. Researchers have now identified the gene that causes the barnacle to react to the substance, opening up the ...