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

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

“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

It was a barnacle that he had found on the southern coast of Chile.

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