Penguin Feeding Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tusher African Hall. Meet our charismatic African penguin colony while an Academy biologist feeds them and answers your questions. Admiring from afar? Tune ...

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; view virtual ...

Without basic research, there’d be no scientific breakthroughs. It’s the fertile soil that allows innovation to take root. For all of my career, and for much of the 20th century, the U.S. government ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 16, 2025) — On Thursday, April 24, the California Academy of Sciences will celebrate the intersection of science and technology at its annual fundraising gala Big Bang and ...

Home. The California Academy of Sciences is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our mission is to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 24, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences will celebrate the anniversary of its founding, known as “Academy Day,” on Friday, April 4, with a plethora of fun and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 25, 2025) — A new study of coyote movement patterns published today in Ecology Letters challenges previous research that suggests ecological landscape features—like the ...

Fire has historically been an integral part of Indigenous culture in California; indeed, Native Californians used to light low-intensity fires so often that they burned more land than is razed by ...

Nestled in an understated vacuum-sealed case just outside Morrison Planetarium is a priceless piece of space history: a Moon rock. Just a few centimeters across and clocking in at a whopping 3.7 ...

An organizational update for donors, members, and visitors. July 2, 2024. In light of recent media reports about the California Academy of Sciences’s financial challenges, I am writing to provide you ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 30, 2024) — A gray whale found floating off the coast of Alameda on April 20th likely died due to blunt force trauma from a vessel strike, according to a recent necropsy ...

SAN FRANCISCO (January 18, 2024) — The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that Jim Gohary, previously Managing Director and Global Head of Finance at MSCI, has been named Managing ...