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Annual City Nature Challenge surpasses 1,690,000 wildlife observations in its seventh year.
By working together, animal data from living and scientific collections can better inform conservation
Exhibit showcases adaptations bugs have developed over millions of years and across a multitude of environments.
Annual Big Bang gala returns to the Academy on April 28, 2022
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The Academy is among more than 40 new partners that will become part of the STEM education network.
Team calls for investment in underfunded natural history museum collections (and the treasures they house).
iNaturalist users—and the artificial intelligence they help power—help observe and monitor global species.
Breathtaking images represent best in nature photography from around the world.
Named for Black Panther’s Wakanda, a dazzling new fairy wrasse enchants with purple scales and hidden reef home.
Sampson, a renowned paleontologist and seasoned museum leader, will join the institution in September 2019.
New exhibit dives deep into the shape-shifting, color-changing, and ever-evolving science of skin.
Summer music series returns to the California Academy of Sciences from July through October.
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