This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information. 0 Penguin Feeding Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tusher African Hall ...

Forests and fire California's forests inspire awe and engage our senses. Meet a mounted specimen of Monarch, one of California's last grizzly bears; marvel at a mammoth cross-section of a redwood tree ...

All party packages include up to 16 guests (adults and children over the age of 1). You are welcome to add additional guests onto your package at $40 per person (Aquarium Odyssey & Canopy Quest ...

Snapshot Cal Coast is 10! From June 1 to June 30, help us document California's incredible coastal biodiversity on your own or at a bioblitz event near you. Every summer, the Academy's Center for ...

The Academy is open for members only every Tuesday from 8:30-9:30 am and Sunday from 10-11 am. Learn about our African penguin colony from an Academy biologist during this member program. Sundays, ...

“Everything about hummingbirds is extreme. They have this incredible hovering flight, with wing beat frequencies of 60 times per second, which is nuts. They have the highest metabolic rate for their ...

To create this unique new space, the Academy partnered with renowned nature-based playspace designers and builders Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds. "It was a true pleasure to design and build this ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 13, 2023)— The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, a major exhibition on view at the California Academy of Sciences from May 26, 2023 to January 21, 2024, explores the amazing biology ...

As its name implies, the South Texas thornscrub is not so much a landscape you saunter through as one you may ultimately have to fight your way out of. Unless, perhaps, you’re an ocelot (Leopardus ...

Established under the Academy’s Thriving California initiative, Youth Action for the Planet was created to address challenges Academy educators and staff heard young people describe: difficulty ...

One of the scariest by-products of drought is the increased danger of wildfires. When regular winter rains are absent, forests and grasslands are left vulnerable to fire. The California Department of ...

Air pollution affects not only human health, but the health of other organisms, too. Take diesel fuel exhaust, known to cause cancer, heart and lung disease, and mental illness in humans. Responding ...