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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It remains one of the most perplexing aviation mysteries in history. In the years since the ...

A University of South Florida geoscientist led an international team of researchers to create a new method that can reconstruct the drift path and origin of debris from flight MH370, an aircraft that ...

MH370 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) away from Reunion. Based on photographs, ecologists in Australia believe the crustaceans clinging to the ...

Barnacles aren’t exactly renowned for their athleticism, staying glued in place for much of their lives. But turtle-riding barnacles are fidgety travelers. Barnacles start life as free-swimming larvae ...

It’s not hard to understand why “Barnacles!” is SpongeBob SquarePants' go-to curse. For beach-goers, the hard-shelled critters can slice tender bare feet or gunk up an otherwise prize sand dollar. For ...

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.

Almost by definition, barnacles are immobile: these crustaceans cluster on surfaces such as whale heads, sea turtle shells, coastal rocks, and ship hulls. Once barnacle larvae mature, they travel on ...