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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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Education, Leadership
California Academy of Sciences Selects Elizabeth Babcock As New Dean of Education
September 29, 2010

Meet Elizabeth Babcock, the Academy's New Dean of Education.

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Two parallel cutmarks made by stone tools on the rib of a cow sized mammal.
Science & Sustainability
Scientists Discover Oldest Evidence of Stone Tool Use and Meat-Eating Among Human Ancestors
August 11, 2010

New finds from Ethiopia push tool use back by almost a million years.

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Building, Science & Sustainability
New California Academy of Sciences Receives Highest Possible Rating From U.S. Green Building Council: Leed Platinum
October 8, 2008

The Academy's innovative building earns the highest sustainability rating of any museum in the world.

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Main entrance to the California Academy of Sciences building
Building, Exhibits, Programs & Events
New Academy Fact Sheet
September 27, 2008

Learn why the new California Academy of Sciences is one of San Francisco's must-see destinations.

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Bart Shepherd working with corals.
Exhibits
World’s Deepest Living Coral Reef Display to Debut in San Francisco
August 28, 2008

The Academy's new 212,000-gallon aquarium tank holds the world's deepest living coral reef display.

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Science & Sustainability
The California Academy of Sciences Appoints New Anthropology Chair
June 4, 2008

Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged brings his expertise in early human evolution to his new role as anthropology chair.

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Science & Sustainability
Scientists develop new model for protecting biodiversity in Madagascar
April 7, 2008

Proposed protected areas will preserve the maximum number of species.

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Building, Exhibits
Rebuilding Project Fact Sheet
January 1, 2008

​The California Academy of Sciences is constructing a dynamic new facility in Golden Gate Park.

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