Mon Jan 20 at 11:15 am, 12:45 pm, 2:15 pm, 3:45 pm - Planetarium Planetarium shows are included with Daytime Admission, but capacity is limited for the safety of our guests and staff. Reservations are ...

The Museum opens at 9:30 am today.

The Swamp is best known as the home of Claude, the startlingly white Alligator mississippiensis who's become one of the Academy's most famous residents. Go below for underwater, eye-to-eye views of ...

What path does this water droplet take to get from the soil to the clouds? Reflecting on the anatomy of a tree from the roots to the leaves, what parts do you notice? What parts did you travel through ...

This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information. Planetarium shows are included with Daytime Admission, but capacity is limited for the safety of our guests and staff ...

This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information. Planetarium shows are included with admission, but capacity is limited for the safety of our guests and staff.

This site provides access to specimen-associated data housed in the Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences. These data are also distributed through other portals including HerpNet, ...

Brian Fisher, the California Academy of Science's renowned entomologist, reveals there are 22,000 species of ants populating the earth. “Our ability to dig deeper into their hidden world can shed ...

The Academy’s iconic Living Roof is more than a beautiful architectural feature; it's critical to the building’s heating and cooling efficiency. The six inches of soil substrate on the roof acts as ...

Students will explore tectonic plate boundaries and different types of seismic waves generated by earthquakes.

P. punctata is native to the South West Pacific, from Australia to Japan, but it has a well-documented history of invasion. Today, there are known populations of white-spotted jellyfish in Hawaii, ...

Academy biologists regularly conduct in-water training and enrichment exercises with our resident rays—which is why human feet occasionally make a webcam cameo. The rays eat clam tongue, prawns, squid ...