barnacle

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A Ram truck with a yellow barnacle on its windshield, a handful of mopeds under rain covers, and a lot of empty parking spaces.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2025

In the UK, rising sea temperatures are having an impact, with a number of creatures having vanished completely from coastal locations - some barnacle species, for example.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

The team also used published research and field surveys to find out how barnacle populations overlap with the range expansion of warm-water predatory sea snails.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

“We are quite poor at remembering how things were 20, 30 years ago, unless we have some notes,” he says, as barnacle geese bark in flight above him.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

It was a tiny thing, perhaps the smallest barnacle in the world.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman