Facebook / Vicki Evans As it turns out, the “aliens” were actually goose barnacles, a species of communal crustacean that attaches itself to floating objects, on wharves and piers, or even ...

One of his study sites, located at Mukkaw Bay, contained a community consistently dominated by the same species of mussels, barnacles, and the starfish, Pisaster ochraceus, which preys upon the ...

Turns out, these are called turtle barnacles. Turtle barnacles, specifically the species Chelonibia, are a common sight on ...

Beachgoers have been left confused by the unusual sight of thousands of tendril-like stalks attached to shells that washed up ...

Over 26 years walking Horseshoe Bay - I've never seen anything quite like this before,' a local woman wrote as she shared images of the barnacles online 'Nature never ceases to amaze!' ...

identifying the “alien” as a large colony of goose barnacles, a species of communal crustacean. Goose barnacles typically attach themselves to floating objects, ship hulls, and wharves.

I began to work on Cirripedia [barnacles ] ... I worked steadily on the subject for the next eight years, and ultimately published two thick volumes, describing all the known living species ...

Consider barnacles that attach themselves to whales ... their relationship is called mutualism. In this case, each species tends to evolve adaptations to the other (that is, they coevolve ...