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 ...

Barnacles might look like jagged little rocks, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life. Acorn barnacles might look like jagged little rocks at low tide, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.

Barnacles in San Francisco Bay know how to have a good time. Sex involves long penises, crashing waves, and all the neighbors. Barnacles have the longest penis of any animal, relative to body size.

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 ...