A loggerhead turtle that washed up on the Channel Island of Guernsey during Storm Ciarán in November 2023 is set to be returned to warmer waters by the Royal Navy. The turtle was named Barnacle Bill, ...

A video went viral showing a sea turtle rescued from barnacles. The turtle was struggling to eat due to barnacles on its mouth. A person carefully removed the barnacles. This act highlights the ...

If you’ve ever seen a video of someone gently scraping off barnacles from a turtle’s shell—or more dramatically, from its mouth—it might have stopped you in your tracks. There’s something incredibly ...

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...