In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Richard Palmer of the University of Alberta reveals a surprising find about how some barnacles reproduce. Richard Palmer is a professor of biology at the University of ...

The gooseneck barnacle (with a relaxed penis at arrow) is capable of a method of sex previously unobserved in barnacles, upending 150 years of theory. Image via Barazandeh, et al. Proc. R. Soc. B.

In today’s Academic Minute, Richard Palmer of the University of Alberta reveals a surprising find about how some barnacles reproduce. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Alberta's Richard Palmer describes a surprising find about how some barnacles reproduce. Palmer is a professor of biology at Alberta, where his research ...

Oversized penises are not always enough to let immobile crustaceans mate. You have full access to this article via your institution. It can be hard to find a sexual partner when you are glued to a ...

The bigger the host, the better for its guests. That certainly holds for parasitic barnacles. A new study confirms the link and reveals the strategy adopted by these unusual crustaceans in the early ...

It can be hard to find a sexual partner when you are glued to a rock. Barnacles famously get around this problem by having penises longer than their bodies, so that they can seek out relatively ...