The Red Hook community will come together Tuesday for the sixth annual Barnacle Parade, an event held each year in commemoration of Superstorm Sandy. This year’s parade will fall on the seventh ...

A new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology by researchers from Macquarie University and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science has found the color of concrete can significantly affect ...

The Red Hook community came together Sunday for the annual Barnacle Parade, an event that celebrates the resilience of the neighborhood in the face of adversity. The rain didn't stop the parade as ...

These barnacle legs look like a brush that might be used by a chimney sweep. Often attached to ships, barnacles use their hairy legs to comb through the water to collect organisms, mostly microscopic ...

Have you ever seen the bottom of a barnacle? Or to be totally accurate, the top? I hadn’t either until a good friend and photographer, Michael Ready, showed me this photo he took in down in Baja ...

Barnacles are marine mammals that are known as fouling organisms because they accumulate under boats. They keep their strong hold with a waterproof glue. If you watch a barnacle close up, you can see ...

Barnacles are a major problem for the shipping industry. Working out how they stick to boat hulls is of major economic importance. Researchers have now discovered that barnacle glue cures in the same ...

In absolute terms, the blue whale has the largest penis of any animal—a huge mobile appendage that can reach 10 feet in length. But the blue whale itself is enormous. If you take body size into ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to unlock ...