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Featured partners of NightLife Says Who

Top row (from left): Alex Hanna, Amy Fiedler, Aurora Cortes, Christine Cordero, Christine Liu, Deniss Martinez. Middle row (from left): Francesca Fiorentini, Kel Larkin, Naomi Garcia, Naomi Maisel, Nia Imara, Olivia VanDamme. Bottom row (from left): Panda Dulce, Rebekah Kim, Sarah Shimazaki, Sthefany Galante Bautista, VERA!, Walter Kitundu.

California Academy of Sciences launches all-new NightLife series: Says Who?

Three-part series uplifts systematically excluded voices in science and questions “storyteller privilege."

Yellow-crowned night heron from Texas
City Nature Challenge records over 1,870,000 wildlife observations in a single weekend

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.

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

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.
Community scientists across the globe compete in City Nature Challenge, April 28 - May 1, 2023

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

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Education, Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Launches Science Today Mobile App
March 3, 2014

Science Today app keeps finger on the pulse of science news with engaging videos and original articles.

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Skulls exhibit
Education, Exhibits
Skulls, a New Exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, Opens on May 16, 2014
February 26, 2014

Every skull tells a story. By examining skulls, scientists learn how vertebrate animals live, die, and evolve.

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Education, Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Partners with Khan Academy to Launch New Online Course
January 28, 2014

Our new digital learning course "Biodiversity" is available for free to science enthusiasts around the world.

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BigPicture Competition Grand Prize winner

Grand-prize winner "The Luckiest Penguin," by Paul Souders, grand-prize winner of the 2014 BigPicture Competition

Exhibits, Programs & Events
Academy Opens Its First Major Photography Exhibit: BigPicture
January 1, 2014

From Aug. 1 to Nov. 2, the Academy will display winning images from its inaugural photo competition, BigPicture.

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The Etendeka round-eared sengi in Namibia
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
New Species of Mammal Discovered By Academy Scientists
January 1, 2014

Round-eared elephant-shrew found in Namibia represents newest addition to the order Macroscelidea.

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Underwater photo from the 2014 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
Expedition to the “Center of the Center” of Marine Biodiversity
January 1, 2014

In its largest diving expedition, Academy scientists traveled to the Philippines' Verde Island Passage.

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Hemidactylus principensis, a new gecko species.
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
91 New Species Described in 2013
December 20, 2013

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences discovered 91 new plant and animal species and two new genera.

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Meg Lowman in the canopy.
Leadership, Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Selects Dr. Meg Lowman As Inaugural Chief of Science and Sustainability
November 18, 2013

Meet Dr. Meg Lowman, the Academy's inaugural Chief of Science and Sustainability.

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