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 ...

While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological ...