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An interactive storytime about how humans are connected to each other and the natural world. Daily, 10:15 a.m. Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, ...

Participants will conduct research with their chosen advisor on a project relating to the discipline of the advisor and student. The program begins with a week-long field trip to the University of ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

Although corals are tiny organisms, they construct some of the largest and most ecologically important structures in the world. Members of a diverse group that includes jellyfish and anemones, most ...

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Thriving California aims to regenerate biodiversity, build resilience to climate change, and advance equitable access to nature across our state and in three major California ecosystems: Sierra ...

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at the California Academy of Sciences! Please scroll down to view currently available opportunities and role descriptions. The California Academy of ...

For ichthyology curator Luiz Rocha, childhood was defined by fish and sea. “I had tanks starting from age 5 or 6,” he says, “and I decided to be a biologist when I had my first biology class in third ...

Astronomers explore the third dimension of space with a variety of cutting-edge techniques.

Don’t tell Claude, but he’s not the only long-bodied, sharp-toothed, extremely chill species in the aquarium.

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