The tough-to-recognize creature was identified as an endangered loggerhead sea turtle, and it even had barnacles stuck to its ...

UC Berkeley researcher Larry Taylor knew that present-day barnacle shells take up differently weighted oxygen atoms from bodies of water. That creates a record of the oceans they’ve been in as ...

Once barnacle larvae mature, they travel on ocean currents in search of an anchoring place, preferentially settling in locations with good water flow, which often happen to be moving marine animals.

Many arrive suffering from severe hypothermia, disoriented by storms and ocean currents - an issue ... and already had its first patient: Barnacle Bill, a loggerhead turtle that was rescued ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common ...