Steven Gundry

Lectins are like little barnacles that look for specific sugar molecules in our blood, the lining of our gut, and on our nerves. When they find a good spot to land, they cling to those cells, breaking down their ability to communicate with our immune systems.

American Author

William Banting

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

English Celebrity

Geoff Johns

Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.

American Writer

John Darnielle

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

American Musician

William Collins

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

English Poet

Stephen Hunter

The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.

American Novelist

Richard Owen

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

English Scientist

David Burtka

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

American Actor

Michael Leunig

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

Australian Cartoonist

Barnacles are crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters and are not plants or rocks.

Marine Life

Once attached, barnacles remain fixed in that spot for life, symbolizing permanence or stubbornness.

Permanent Attachment

Barnacles on ships can cause drag; removing them is part of regular ship upkeep.

Ship Maintenance

A person described as a 'barnacle' may be unwelcome but refuses to leave.

Stubborn Person

Calling someone a 'barnacle' usually has a negative implication of annoyance or intrusion.

Negative Connotation

Used metaphorically, 'barnacle' implies someone has a lasting, hard-to-remove impact.

Persistent Influence

 What it would do is it would drill a hole. It would bore a little hole into the shells of those barnacles and mussels. It will inject this enzyme deep into the the body, Which will sort of digest it for it and turn it into a liquid soup. And then it has this tube structure thing called a proboscis, which it uses to suck out all that

Finding Baby Seals on an...

 And then, if you think about what happens when a storm comes in, if the storm surge first has to hit miles of these reefs, the coast behind it is going to be protected. So they're really quite influential. If you've been to any rocky beach pretty much anywhere in the world, you're probably familiar with what barnacles look like.

What sticky sea...

 their sales and barnacles crabs or the whole bacteria from the bacteria all the way up to the pup consumers so knowledge minerals and the other mining industries come to the science scientists and say well how do we think about this how do we do the environmental management many kinds of systems and we've been helping

Beyond the edge of the...

 diet comes from the ocean they fish barnacles mussels clams even washed-up whales they live this incredible existence and this particular day will stay with me forever because it was the first time I'd ever got close to a coastal wolf up to this point every time I tried to sneak up on them or get close

A Quest to Find Canada’s...

 We're not the first ones to have to protect ourselves from some bacteria. Turns out that -- this is a Galapagos Shark. It has no bacteria on its surface, no fouling on its surface, no barnacles. And it's not because it goes fast. It actually basks. It's a slow-moving shark.

Biomimicry in action PIPE...

 and and it mentioned these things called barnacles and i was like really fascinated it said there were those ice formations that grew down from the the eyes from the surface ice uh remarkably quickly but no one had really seen the growth of them and i thought my god

Filming Antarctica's...

 covered Rock was nicknamed the carwash barnacle by researchers because it looked like the spinning cylinders found in a car wash they even spotted a colorless octopus one of the rarest finds on the team's expedition it's about two feet long and was filmed

Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...

 fish lay eggs amidst their sprawling, complex root systems. Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles,

The sharks that hunt in...

 are in fact parasitic while others are commensal posing no threat to the turtle crabs barnacles shrimp oysters algae and other life-forms have all been seen on the Turtles

Parasites Hitch a Ride...

 so this rock is teeming with life you have kelp crab you have barnacles snail you have muscles you have barnacles on those