There is much of Darwin, something of Shakespeare and a hint of Jane Austen in film producer Galt Niederhoffer’s first novel, “A Taxonomy of Barnacles” (St. Martin’s, 384 pages, $24.95), the smart and ...

Galt Niederhoffer is a great name for someone who writes tongue-twisters disguised as novels, just as indie filmmaker is a fantastic day job for someone whose novels put readers in a headspace ...

Rumor has it that Twilight darling Kristen Stewart may be attached to A Taxonomy of Barnacles, a comedy based on Galt Nierderhoffer’s novel, with Jeff Bridges, Anne Hathaway and Maggie Gyllenhaal, ...

Lepas anatifera from Washington state, USA. Photo credit: David Cowles 1997. Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of ...

A previously undescribed heteralepadomorph genus and species is recorded as attached to the inside of the shell of the living epibenthic bivalve Arca navicularis, dredged from the waters of Moreton ...

A new species of the neoverrucid barnacle genus Neoverruca Newman, 1989, N. intermedia sp. nov., collected from a hydrothermal vent area in the Okinawa Trough, is described and illustrated. It differs ...

Not everything on a coral is actually a coral. Embedded into the hard coral’s surfaces are nearly 100 species of specialized barnacles—the Pyrgomatidae. New work by Machel Malay and François ...

A new study looked at the male sexual organ of barnacles, which it turns out is a marine creature that has been studied dating all the way back to Charles Darwin. When it comes to long distance ...

On Sundays, Gothamist runs opinion pieces on issues relevant to life in New York. The views expressed below belong entirely to the author. The novel is set on the Upper East Side of legend – a place ...

In Niederhoffer's arch, alliterative debut, Bell, Bridget, Beth, Belinda, Beryl and Benita Barnacle, ranging in age from 10 to 29, plunge headlong into the competition their father, Barry Barnacle (né ...