Biagini, owner of Gone Whale Watching San Diego, was on a filming expedition 18 miles southwest of San Diego with Taylor Parent when the male humpback whale, nicknamed Snowflake, approached the boat.

BARNACLE BIOGRAPHY The barnacles that latch on to baleen whales, such as this humpback, may offer a record of their hosts’ movements, even millions of years later, new research suggests. Gregory ...

Consuelos revealed that he once had a dangerous interaction with a whale in the Caribbean. "It wasn't smart," the "Live" ...

Whale barnacles add new shell throughout the year that has been shown to reflect, through oxygen isotope ratios, the conditions of the seas through which the whale traveled. UC Berkeley ...

At least six gray whales have been feeding recently inside Los Angeles Harbor, ... which are easily differentiated from the normal crater-like barnacle scars and white blotches on the whale’s skin.

"Whale barnacles are usually species specific -- one species of barnacle on one type of whale," said Aaron O'Dea, staff scientist at STRI and co-author of the study.

A “friendly” humpback whale approached boaters in Monterey Bay, California, giving them a close look at its barnacles and tubercles.

As whale barnacles grow, their shells record the conditions by taking up oxygen isotopes from the water. By carefully reading the unique isotope signatures left in the shells, ...

Gray whales’ characteristic white patches are mostly made of barnacles and lice, and the Marine Mammal Center reports each whale can carry 400 pounds of them. Yikes! Researchers aren’t clear ...

Whales navigate with echolocation and any degradation of auditory acuity could lead to disorientation and collisions, said Joseph Santos-Sacchi, professor of otolaryngology and neurobiology at the ...

Barnacles are crustaceans that secrete a fast-curing cement that enables them to latch on to rocks, boats, whales and walls. Scraping barnacle buildup is necessary to help improve salmon’s odds ...

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