This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information. 0 Life: A Cosmic Story Monday-Friday: 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm Saturday-Sunday: 11:15 am, 12:45 pm, 2:15 pm, 3:45 ...

The Museum opens at 9:30 am today. Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Join us as we venture "Into the Deep" to find all sorts of ...

About the Philippine Coral Reef 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 ...

Snapshot Cal Coast is 10! From June 1 to June 30, help us document California's incredible coastal biodiversity on your own or at a bioblitz event near you. Every summer, the Academy's Center for ...

All party packages include up to 16 guests (adults and children over the age of 1). You are welcome to add additional guests onto your package at $40 per person (Aquarium Odyssey & Canopy Quest ...

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 ...

To date this year, 19 gray whales, two unidentified baleen whales, and one minke whale have died in the greater San Francisco Bay Area region, with the cause of seven of the gray whale deaths ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 19, 2024) — Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences described 138 new animal, plant, and fungi species in 2024, enriching our understanding of Earth’s ...

Funding The Academy's rebuilding project is a result of a public/private partnership. Through gifts and public funding, the Academy has secured $465 million so far. This includes $152 million as ...

California Academy of Sciences’ Innovative Tendon Surgery on African Penguin Chick Published in Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine Groundbreaking step for avian veterinary medicine helped adorable ...

Early life and family Mary Isabel McCracken was born on December 27, 1865 in Oakland, California to John Harvey McCracken and Mary “Bridget” Dolan McCracken. Her father was born in Ohio in 1828, moved ...