A new method for tracking the debris from a decade-old plane crash has been found, and it involves an unassuming assistant: barnacles. Studying the chemical makeup of the shells of the tiny ...

International researchers have argued that modelling of ocean barnacle shell formation and sea temperature could prove useful analytical data to locate the crash site of a missing Malaysia Airlines ...

Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

If an enemy you were previously safe from turned up in your neighborhood, what would you do? That's a problem currently being faced by barnacles in northern Mexico, which are growing sideways to ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.