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
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
“That’s what this group has done. They’ve given us the methods to decode the data that’s there—stored in barnacle shells.”
From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023
He asked other scientists to send him their barnacle collections, and over the next days, weeks, and months he pulled down more bottles of barnacles from his shelves.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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