Parasitic barnacles of the infraclass Rhizocephala exemplify extreme host manipulation within marine ecosystems. Endoparasitic adults abandon most free‐living features to invade decapod crustaceans, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video showing a boat captain pulling parasites off a whale's head in a Mexican lagoon went viral. But a behavioral scientist ...

Three-dimensional model of a parasitic barnacle (S. hippolytes) on its shrimp host (P. brevirostris), showing the inner network (yellow) elaborated by the parasite, the parasite's reproductive organ ...

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 ...