some of the micro biologist experts have said that you can tell they called them cosmo poll tan barnacles, in other words, they re coming from different areas as that piece of wreckage may have traveled but will they be able to tell where the plane actually went down based on the biology of these barnacles? you answered the question yourself gretchen by pos itting it the way you did. barnacles don t appear instantaneously. i ve been a sailor and have not sailed the south ocean but it takes quite a while for the biological buildup to occur in the ocean. a wing floating there and most of us myself included believed this was from mh 370 simply because they have been no flaperons lost on 777 in forever. therefore, it was highly expected this would be a 370 piece. the question really is is it going to be barnacles that would