Pérez-Losada, Marcos; Høeg, Jens T; Crandall, Keith A (17 April 2009). "Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea)". BMC Biology. 7 (1): 15. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-15. PMC 2678073. PMID 19374762. Typical acorn barnacles develop six hard calcareous plates to surround and protect their bodies. For the rest of their lives, they are cemented to the substrate, using their feathery legs (cirri) to capture plankton. Pearson, Ryan M.; van de Merwe, Jason P.; Gagan, Michael K.; Connolly, Rod M. (2020). "Unique Post-telemetry Recapture Enables Development of Multi-Element Isoscapes From Barnacle Shell for Retracing Host Movement". Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00596. hdl: 10072/395516. ISSN 2296-7745. Then there’s Tintin himself. The boy reporter, says Farr, is “an unusually blank figure. Just those two dots for eyes, that little nose.” His celebrated quiff was the result of an early car chase: Hergé enjoyed drawing it so much he made it permanent. “He appeals to everyone, boys and girls, all ages, all nationalities. He’s a blank sheet every reader can identify with. It’s a very clever device.” Almost exactly 90 years ago, an idealistic boy reporter with a distinctive quiff made his comic strip debut in Le Petit Vingtième, the children’s supplement of a Belgian daily newspaper. Tintin, accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy, was the creation of Georges Remi, who took his initials, reversed them and fashioned a pen-name based on their Francophone pronunciation: Hergé.

The flesh of some barnacles is routinely consumed by humans, including Japanese goose barnacles ( e.g. Capitulum mitella), and goose barnacles ( e.g. Pollicipes pollicipes), a delicacy in Spain and Portugal. [50] Peeters, Benoît (2012) [2002]. Hergé: Son of Tintin. Tina A. Kover (translator). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0454-7. Ewen Callaway (2009-04-07). "Penis length isn't everything … for barnacle males". New Scientist . Retrieved 2020-10-03. Barnacles have no heart. They do, however, have a sinus that performs a similar function with muscles pushing blood through.E. Bourget (1987). Barnacle shells: composition, structure, and growth. pp.267–285. In A. J. Southward (ed.), 1987. Pearson, Ryan M.; van de Merwe, Jason P.; Connolly, Rod M. (2020). "Global oxygen isoscapes for barnacle shells: Application for tracing movement in oceans". Science of the Total Environment. 705: 135782. Bibcode: 2020ScTEn.705m5782P. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135782. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 31787294. S2CID 208536416. Nauplius [ edit ] Nauplius larva of Elminius modestus Nauplius larva of a barnacle with fronto-lateral horns [13] Maybe we can dramatically change the ship shape and come up with some novel profiles Yigit Demirel, naval architect and marine engineer at Strathclyde University

Most barnacles are suspension feeders; they dwell continually in their shells, which are usually constructed of six plates, [3] and reach into the water column with modified legs. These feathery appendages beat rhythmically to draw plankton and detritus into the shell for consumption. [25] Xu, Zhenzhen; Liu, Zhongcheng; Zhang, Chao; Xu, Donggang (October 2022). "Advance in barnacle cement with high underwater adhesion". Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 139 (37): 1–12. doi: 10.1002/app.52894. S2CID 251335952. This photo, from The Scotsman archive on Scran, shows a policeman demonstrating road safety skills in 1958. a b Richmond, Marsha (January 2007). "Darwin's Study of the Cirripedia". Darwin Online . Retrieved 16 June 2012.

Zheden, Vanessa; Kovalev, Alexander; Gorb, Stanislav N.; Klepal, Waltraud (2015-02-06). "Characterization of cement float buoyancy in the stalked barnacle Dosima fascicularis (Crustacea, Cirripedia)". Interface Focus. 5 (1): 20140060. doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0060. ISSN 2042-8898. PMC 4275874. PMID 25657839. A fertilised egg hatches into a nauplius: a one-eyed larva comprising a head and a telson, without a thorax or abdomen. This undergoes six moults, passing through five instars, before transforming into the cyprid stage. Nauplii are typically initially brooded by the parent, and released after the first moult as larvae that swim freely using setae. [14] [15] Cyprid [ edit ] Barnacles do grow the more they eat. It is not known how they enlarge their shell. Most probably they use a chemical to dissolve the inner layers whilst new layers are added to the outer shell. Half-timbered houses like this appeared in the original edition of the story, but were revised to be more in keeping with Scottish architecture in the 1966 version.