Dang. I just saw that a month ago and posted about it in a boat group on facebook - nobody believed me and made fun of me! I'm going to post that again now.
I'm never going near an ocean again. But it's a good series. Shows how much little things we never think about, but could be fatal. Even bathing in certain shorelines can be deadly.
Quite fascinating though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle"The oldest definitive fossil barnacle is Praelepas from the mid-Carboniferous, around 330-320 million years ago.[32] Older claimed barnacles such as Priscansermarinus from the Middle Cambrian (on the order of 510 to 500 million years ago)[33] do not show clear barnacle morphological traits."
This post was edited by Taurean on Sep 28 2022 01:45am