barnacles
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Barnacles
Rock revealed at low tide with at least two kinds of barnacles Other specimens from the same low tide beach: These are on metal, so the rust red gives it a nice Martian tinge. *** In the UK? Today’s the GE!
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Young Barnacles
Barnacle sets. Found on a rock on the rocky glacial shore of Cold Spring Harbor at Sagamore Hill NHS. Barnacles are crustaceans, related to shrimp, crabs, lobsters. Shrimp that have glued their heads onto surfaces and built up walls to stand the siege of low tide… These strange sedentary — at least as adults —…
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Barnacles
I just pulled these acorn barnacle shells out of a side pocket of my backpack. I picked them up in Maine a couple of months ago and promptly forgot about them. Crustaceans, acorn barnacles begin life as free-floating larvae. The tiny head and telson affair is called a nauplius. These grow into a second larval…
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Hung Like a Barnacle
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex, by John A. Long. “We all know about the birds and the bees…” goes the jacket and webpage copy for this book, but do we? In fact, I can’t think of a stranger duo of examples to be used as an euphemism for courtship and…
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A Very Strange Crab Indeed
A piece of barnacle conglomeration I found at Dead Horse Bay recently. Most species of barnacles need a surface to attach to, and sometimes that surface is other barnacles. These are a type of acorn barnacle, one of the two main groups. I understand differentiating the local species is difficult for the lay person. Give…
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