NYPD unveils "Barnacle" pilot program, featuring device designed to end illegal parking 02:23. NEW YORK-- Move over subway robot, the NYPD has got a new pilot program.

The Barnacle is lighter than the solid steel boots that attach to a scofflaw’s vehicle — about 15 pounds vs. 30 or more for the boot, Haney said — and it can be applied more safely and easily.

Genomics reveals that there is more to the barnacle than meets the eye, Henry Gee reports. When Charles Darwin returned home from his five-year trip aboard HMS Beagle, fired up with news about ...

When the barnacles are scarce, and at their most difficult to catch, they sell for around 35 euros a kilo. Paulo is one of just 80 families to have a much prized licence to harvest the barnacles.

Longer isn’t always better, according to some men, and it seems the same is true for barnacles, too. The hermaphroditic filter-feeders can grow penises up to eight times their body length ...