It must reach the grassy feeding grounds below, but in order to get there, the barnacle gosling must plummet more than 120m from its nest in the high cliffs of eastern Greenland. The mother calls ...

A barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis ... At just two to three days old, tiny barnacle goslings in eastern Greenland face one of the most extreme survival strategies in the natural world: Leaving ...

Like a nightmare vision reminiscent of Hollywood's aquatic thriller Sphere, hundreds of translucent, tendril-like stalks with ...

In 2022, a roll of barnacles of similar size appeared on a beach in Gwynedd, in the northwest of Wales, and was said to be worth a whopping £4,000. Goose barnacles live attached to various ...