Secreting a fast-curing cement, these crustaceans latch themselves on to any hard surface - rocks, boats, whales and walls – and hold on for life. But don’t let these sticky sea creatures fool you.

If you’ve been on the Facebook cruise ship for a while, you‘ve likely accumulated what we call Facebook barnacles on your profile. Facebook barnacles are those apps that latched onto your profile when ...

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 ...

When a federal prosecutor the other day compared the culture of corruption in New York politics to "barnacles on a boat bottom," I felt bad for the barnacle. It's a misunderstood crustacean. What ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews scraped barnacles from the large lock at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard on Friday as part of annual maintenance cleaning. The 55-foot-deep chamber was ...

WASILLA -- The Matanuska-Susitna Borough's never-used passenger ferry Susitna will get a much-needed tuneup, but one that doesn't include removing the layer of sea life coating its hulls. The Mat-Su ...