One is climate change. The second is illegal fishing. An auctioneer at the A Coruna fish market said that the number of barnacles a decade ago was double or triple what it is now, Reuters reported.

These sea creatures are known as Lucifer's fingers. The barnacles are a delicacy in Europe, but catching them isn't easy. Fishermen risk their lives to find them, climbing over slippery cliffs and ...

UC Berkeley researcher Larry Taylor knew that present-day barnacle shells take up differently weighted oxygen atoms from bodies of water. That creates a record of the oceans they’ve been in as ...

Israel Martinez, an auctioneer in the A Coruna fish market, said that there used to be double or triple the number of barnacles just 10 years ago. Despite state regulations – such as limiting daily ...