If it is a female, this is the stage when it hooks itself onto its victim – in most cases the common shore crab. When firmly ...

When it comes to long distance relationships, it seems the barnacle has it all figured out. That's because if they fancy a mate who is far away, the male can simply make his penis longer to meet the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barnacles have the longest penis of any animal, relative to body size. Adults fuse onto one spot, so this is a necessary adaptation to reach eggs to fertilize. Their penises also taste and smell in ...

Here’s everything you wanted to know about barnacle penises but were too afraid to ask. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. Listen, barnacle penises are fascinating things. First of all, ...

It’s not hard to understand why “Barnacles!” is SpongeBob SquarePants' go-to curse. For beach-goers, the hard-shelled critters can slice tender bare feet or gunk up an otherwise prize sand dollar. For ...