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.

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 ...

Here's what's being done to help an endangered sea turtle recover after being found on a Texas beach in rough shape.

MARATHON, Fla. — A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle, found unable to dive, emaciated and covered with barnacles by a family that was fishing last June, was returned to the Atlantic Ocean off Marathon ...

A Lewes nonprofit is asking boaters to report sightings of an injured loggerhead sea turtle in the Indian River Bay. The endangered turtle has noticeable algae, barnacles and a rear shell injury. MERR ...

The Kemp's ridley sea turtle was found near Galveston covered in barnacles, algae and sediment, a sign she had been sick for ...