[Coral-List] barnacles on turtle shells can move (slowly)

[Douglas Fenner]

It moves!  Supposedly immobile barnacles can "surf" across turtle shells

https://www.science.org/content/article/it-moves-supposedly-immobile-barnacles-can-surf-across-turtle-shells

Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its
ecological function in a turtle barnacle

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620

Open-access

Cheers, Doug

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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA
None of the world’s major economies, including those in the G20 group, have
a sufficient plan to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement on
climate change.

Humans are driving one million species to extinction
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4

Slashing emissions by 2050 isn't enough.  We can bring down temperature now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/climate-deadlines-super-pollutants-hfcs-methane/2021/04/15/acb8c612-9d7d-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html