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BigPicture exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences.
Academy Celebrates BigPicture Exhibit 10th Anniversary with New Book Featuring Award-winning Female Wildlife Photographers

BigPicture is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new book Seeing It All featuring women photographers.

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Methuselah the lungfish pictured floating in her blue tank

photo by Gayle Laird

California Academy of Sciences Reveals Age of World’s Oldest Living Aquarium Fish

Methuselah the nonagenarian Australian lungfish’s age comes just in time for Steinhart Aquarium’s centennial.

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Citizen scientists out on a nature walk in San Francisco.
Thirty-two organizations announce Reimagining San Francisco, a new nature alliance to make the City healthier, greener, and more equitable

Nonprofit, city, state, & educational orgs have pledged to work together to improve the ecological health of SF

Steinhart Aquarium pictured on opening day in 1923.
California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium Celebrates 100 Years

Centennial celebrations include activations across the city, inside the museum, and more.

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Yellow-crowned night heron from Texas
Animal News, Programs & Events
City Nature Challenge records over 1,870,000 wildlife observations in a single weekend
May 8, 2023

More than 66,300 community scientists participate in the Challenge's eighth year.

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Children measure a Sauropod femur.

Kids get a sense of Sauropod size with a glimpse at a huge fossil replica femur.

Exhibits
The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, an exciting exhibition about super-sized Sauropods, opens May 26 at the California Academy of Sciences
April 13, 2023

New exhibit delves into the biology and behavior of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk earth.

An iNaturalist user documents an observation on Yerba Buena Island.
Programs & Events
Community scientists across the globe compete in City Nature Challenge, April 28 - May 1, 2023
March 30, 2023

Eighth annual Challenge unites people with nature around the world to document Earth's biodiversity.

A vibrant and colorful coral reef in the Maldives
Science & Sustainability
How to prepare for ocean acidification
March 28, 2023

An international research team develops a rubric for governments to assess ocean acidification preparedness.

Entomology specimens at the California Academy of Sciences.
Science & Sustainability
Academy Joins Global Natural History Initiative to Build Groundbreaking Database for Tackling 21st Century Challenges
March 23, 2023

Effort connects more than a billion objects in scientific collections across 73 museums in 28 countries.

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Big Bang Gala speakers

Top row (from left): Hilda C. Heine, Ed.D.; Rayna Bell, PhD; Lauren Esposito, PhD. Bottom row (from left): Marie Christina Kolo; Selina N. Leem; Madame Gandhi.

Programs & Events
California Academy of Sciences’ Big Bang Gala Spotlights Island Biodiversity Conservation
March 20, 2023

Annual fundraiser explores the Academy’s Islands 2030 initiative to reverse island biodiversity loss.

Academy Day face painting
Programs & Events
California Academy of Sciences to Celebrate 170-Year Anniversary with First-ever Academy Day April 4
March 14, 2023

Festive day of philanthropy to feature special science fair, specimens, prizes, and more.

Research divers exploring coral reefs in Roatán, Honduras
Science & Sustainability
Study shows how biodiversity of coral reefs around the world changes with depth
March 13, 2023

Differences between shallow and mesophotic reefs stress the importance of expanding marine protections.

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