Cal Academy opens at 9:30 a.m. Mon.–Sat. and 11 a.m. Sun. 10:30 a.m. Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. 11:15 a.m. Observe your ...
A pale body half-submerged in dark water, eyelids slack, body motionless. Visitors tended to arrive at “the Swamp”—a live animal habitat at the California Academy of Sciences, where I serve as ...
From a human perspective, the social structure of ants seems quite alien, but on close inspection, their activities can appear all too familiar. Ants’ nests involve a complex division of roles, with ...
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 ...
“The Permian-Triassic extinction serves as a model for studying biodiversity loss on our planet today,” says Academy Curator of Geology Peter Roopnarine, PhD. “In this study, we determined that ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 16, 2021) — In 2021, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 70 new plant and animal species to the tree of life, enriching our understanding of Earth’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 21, 2023) — In a major milestone for marine conservation, the Verde Island Passage (VIP) in the Philippines has been named a Hope Spot by international ocean conservation ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 12, 2023) — In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and ...
The research is based on hundreds of dives totaling more than a thousand hours underwater at sites across the Pacific and the Atlantic, with researchers collecting an unprecedented amount of data on ...
“No one has looked at the evolution of the very earliest sea lily fossils in quite this way before,” says Rich Mooi, a collaborator on the paper, and an invertebrate zoology curator at the California ...
California Academy of Sciences welcomes new Academy Fellows. (© 2008 Tim Griffith) ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 11, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences is gearing up to celebrate one of our most iconic residents: Claude, the beloved albino alligator, who turns 30 on September 15 ...
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