Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Watch as a diver plunges into one of the world's deepest living coral reef tanks. Daily, ...

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An image of the 42-dish Allen Telescope Array (ATA), at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California. The ATA is used to conduct radio astronomy research, including searching for ...

Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...

Land ho! Chart a course for five fascinating archipelagos around the world in our twentieth (and final!) activity pack. Island adventures await, from building a rumbling volcano, exploring delicious ...

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At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

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At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

All major taxonomic groups are well represented in the collection, but several areas of particular merit further description: Embiidina, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera/Homoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, ...

On the day after Thanksgiving 2011, Academy Ornithology and Mammalogy Collections Manager Moe Flannery’s phone rang: A dead orca had been reported washed up on a beach at Point Reyes National Seashore ...