Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They're easy to overlook: pale nodules encrusting dock pilings, mangrove roots and fellow creatures – sea turtles, horseshoe crabs ...

Barnacles growing in a controlled environment as part of a growth experiment for the study. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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 ...