Kelp as an ecosystem engineer. Scorpions as starlight navigators. Fire as a friend to forests. And humans helping build resilience across our state. Through hands-on interactives, multi-sensory ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 28, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences and partners at The Marine Mammal Center can confirm ...

“Everything about hummingbirds is extreme. They have this incredible hovering flight, with wing beat frequencies of 60 times per second, which is nuts. They have the highest metabolic rate for their ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 17, 2025)—More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and beneath the surface lies a hidden world.In Unseen Oceans, a new exhibition on view at the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 18, 2025) — Academy researchers and partners made the first discovery of both a new genus and species of plant in a U.S. national park in nearly 50 years. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 28, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences has received a $3.6 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue digitizing the Academy’s vast botany ...

The Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences is at the forefront of efforts to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and ...

Top row (left to right): Alexis Jackson, PhD; Dave Catania; Elizabeth Kools; Daniel Costa, PhD; David Lindberg, PhD; Andrea Swei, PhD. Middle row (left to right ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 6, 2024) — Now in its ninth year, the annual City Nature Challenge (CNC) global bioblitz has concluded, yielding more than 2,400,000 wildlife observations for another ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 15, 2024) — In a historic reintroduction that further restores native ecosystems in San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences and Presidio Trust released Silvery Blue ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 26, 2024) – Love is in the water and hope is in the air for the critically endangered Sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) as a multi-institution collaborative team ...