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 ...

By examining the barnacles on the fossilized whale bone, scientists were able to determine the migration route of the whale. Isotopic signatures in the barnacles provided vital clues about the sea ...

Humans have discovered ways to get rid of old, dead skin cells – and it turns out humpback whales have made this self-care advancement, too. Whales will roll around in sandy, shallow bay areas to ...

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 ...