As it turns out, the “aliens” were actually goose barnacles, a species of communal crustacean that attaches itself to ...

Eagle-eyed locals revealed the strange mass was a cluster of goose barnacles. University of South Australia marine ecologist ...

Identified by marine ecologist Dr. Zoe Doubleday, the three-meter-long entity turned out to be a large colony of goose barnacles, a communal crustacean, which had detached from its original anchor ...

An incredible image of a football covered in goose barnacles is the winner of this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. The picture was chosen from more than 14,000 entries by both amateur ...

A healthy diet of a sea turtle would normally consist of jellyfish, seaweeds, seagrass and more, but this turtle ingested wood fragments, gooseneck barnacles and plastic — including a disposable ...

Experts quickly identified the so-called alien as a colony of goose barnacles, a crustacean species that clings to floating debris or marine infrastructure in clusters. University of South ...