While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

They said the turtle was lethargic and covered in epibionts, including barnacles, algae and sediment. The endangered sea ...

This week, our seasonal high tides continued and uncovered some interesting beach finds, including auger snails, several life rings, and sea turtle barnacles. In my survey this week I found a stranded ...

A massive Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that washed ashore along the Texas coast is now recovering after being rescued by ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

A bystander found the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed ashore while walking on a Galveston beach the morning of March 7. The lethargic turtle was clearly struggling as it was weighed down with ...

A tiny loggerhead turtle hatchling found on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast is recovering at uShaka Sea World after being rescued covered in barnacles.