barnacles

Barancles are a crustacean that have jointed legs and shells that have connected overlapping plates. to get food they glue themselfs to rock ships pillings and sometimes whales and wait foor food to wash by. when they are under water or when a wave wahes over them they they reach out little barberd legs to strain out plankitin ( what they eat) and absorb oxygon. when the barnacles have eggs they leave they tearn into larva and leave the parents shell and they spend most of there time swimming and after many molt they will setle down to adulthood. they are about 2-5cm wide up to 2 cm high, they are sometimes white, dirty pink, brownish, and a greyish-green neck. there predators are worms, snails, sea stars, fish like sheephead, certain shorebirds, oil spills.
 * By: Jordan Warner**