Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

A barnacle, observed the nineteenth-century zoologist Louis Agassiz, is "nothing more than a little shrimp-like animal standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth." Yet ...

International researchers have argued that modelling of ocean barnacle shell formation and sea temperature could prove useful analytical data to locate the crash site of a missing Malaysia Airlines ...