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

As these predators push out from the equator towards the poles, temperate prey species, like the barnacle Tetraclita rubescens, are encountering new, larger, predators.

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

As he says it, I can feel every barnacle.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman