Barnacles may look nice and nautical on things like rocks, but they’re a major problem for watercraft of all sorts. On the hulls of ships, for example, they can drastically decrease the vessel’s ...

Every boater knows that barnacles are a big pain. Now the emphasis is on big. Mega barnacles have arrived in Florida. Some are large enough to make into a dice cup, a pencil holder or even a bud vase.

Barnacles are a class of marine crustaceans with an external shell (there are over 1,200 different species). The creatures attach permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the ...