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barnacle

[bahr-nuh-kuhl] / ˈbɑr nə kəl /


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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

Researchers wanted to know how this barnacle species might adapt their defences in response to tropicalisation.

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

The research helped shape his theory of evolution, says Power, as he saw the sweeping variation of barnacle lifestyles, still similar enough to be linked through a common ancestor.

From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023

And he kept discovering new species of barnacle.

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




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