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

Those data helped the team develop an equation that can glean sea-surface temperature records from a mystery barnacle.

From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023

He was thrilled to see how many small variations there were from barnacle to barnacle, from species to species.

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