Cal Academy opens at 9:30 a.m. Mon.–Sat. and 11 a.m. Sun. 10:15 a.m. Learn about animals' senses—including your own!—through this interactive Sensory Storytime. Daily, 10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Learn ...
What goes into the making of an exhibit full of fangs, stingers, and spines? Join Curator of Arachnology Lauren Esposito, Academy biologist Emma Kocina, and exhibit designer Ashley Boycher for a ...
The Rock Fund Programs are facilitated in-person programs that are open to all Kinder–5th grade classes from San Francisco schools, whether public, private, or parochial. Please see below for grade ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 11, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences is gearing up to celebrate one of our most iconic residents: Claude, the beloved albino alligator, who turns 30 on September 15 ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 2, 2025) — It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude was an iconic California ...
McGuire and his Berkeley colleague, Robert Dudley, published a paper last week on the extreme evolution of hummingbirds. It’s an amazing tale that takes the small birds from one continent to another ...
Spalt, of course! Compared to their body size, these flies have very small wings, which they move quite rapidly. In fact they move their wings at a frequency of 200 hertz—so the flight muscles ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 12, 2023) — In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 15, 2022) — California now has two new scorpions on its list of species, thanks to the efforts of two keen-eyed high school students from the Bay Area and the California ...
California Academy of Sciences welcomes new Academy Fellows. (© 2008 Tim Griffith) ...
Says lead author Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada: “The question of how many species exist has intrigued scientists for centuries and the answer, ...
Note: See previous post on December 9 In my prior post, I talked about how sea slugs sense their environments using rhinophores (horn-like appendages on their heads). In this post, I will describe how ...
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