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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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A bloom of blue blubber jellyfish spotted off the coast of Sydney.
Programs & Events
City Nature Challenge records over 1,690,000 wildlife observations in a single weekend
May 9, 2022

Annual City Nature Challenge surpasses 1,690,000 wildlife observations in its seventh year.

Philippine Coral Reef exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
Scholars seek greater collaboration between zoos, aquariums, and natural history museums
April 21, 2022

By working together, animal data from living and scientific collections can better inform conservation

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A large-scale model of an orchid mantis demonstrates her camouflage

A large-scale model of an orchid mantis demonstrates her camouflage in the new Bugs exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. (Kate Whitley © 2016 Te Papa)

Exhibits
Bugs opens May 27 at the California Academy of Sciences
April 21, 2022

Exhibit showcases adaptations bugs have developed over millions of years and across a multitude of environments.

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Annual Big Bang gala returns to the Academy on April 28, 2022
Programs & Events
California Academy of Sciences’ 2022 Big Bang Gala to Spotlight Hope for Reefs
April 20, 2022

Annual Big Bang gala returns to the Academy on April 28, 2022

This sunstar from the Galápagos is thought to be extinct.
Exhibits
California Academy of Sciences Unveils Hidden Wonders, a New Exhibition of Rare Specimens from the Academy’s Vast Scientific Collections
April 18, 2022

Hidden Wonders is the inaugural exhibition in the newly created Pauline and Tom Tusher Collections Gallery

Community scientists document wildlife using iNaturalist app
Programs & Events
Community scientists around the world celebrate the City Nature Challenge, April 29 - May 2, 2022
March 31, 2022

Challenge unites communities with nature and each other to document Earth's biodiversity

A vibrantly colored Rose-Veiled Fairy Wrasse
Science & Sustainability
Stunning new-to-science fairy wrasse is first-ever fish described by a Maldivian scientist
March 8, 2022

The species is added to the tree of life as part of the Academy’s global Hope for Reefs initiative

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Academy Careers in Science program honored with Presidential Award

California Academy of Sciences’ Careers in Science Intern Program Honored with Presidential Award.

Leadership
California Academy of Sciences’ Careers in Science Intern Program Honored with Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
February 10, 2022

Paid year-round science internship earned highest U.S. award for science and mathematics mentorship

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