Doha, Qatar: While documenting the hawksbill turtle nesting along the Qatar coastline, the marine scientific team from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) undertook the task of ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has achieved an important milestone towards understanding one of the most persistent species of marine biofouling: the barnacle. Barnacles may not seem complex, but ...

As innocuous-looking marine creatures, barnacles are capable of turning into a real nuisance for various types of sea life. Upon attaching to the body of an animal and growing there permanently, they ...