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

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

Whether the new barnacle methodology will meet that standard, he says, “I think we will only know once full use is made of this technique.”

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