Brainstorm with your students about how people use water. We need to drink water in order to survive. We also use water in many other ways, such as bathing, swimming, watering the lawn, doing the ...

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 ...

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, ...

The California Academy of Sciences is a science museum—and scientific and educational institution—located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Participating in Snapshot Cal Coast is as easy and fun as a day at the beach. Get started in six easy steps: Download the iNaturalist app for iOS or Android.; Create an account to start making ...

You’re halfway through your Unseen Oceans odyssey—time for a moment of zen. Pull up a pouf, sit back, and enjoy the show as a parade of life-size blue whales, ocean sunfish (mola mola), giant squid, ...

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 ...

Hurry in—Spring in the Garden closes this Sunday! The Academy is the place to bee this spring!Float your own boat with Riveropolis, watch four supersize animatronic insects come to life in Bugtopia, ...

abdomen: the last of an insect’s three main body parts. adaptation: any structure or behavior of an organism that improves its chances for survival; antenna (pl. antennae): the thin feelers on the ...

The Academy's herpetology collection began in 1853 with a single Galápagos tortoise shell. It has since grown to be the 6th largest reptile and amphibian collection in the world and serves as an ...

This illustration shows a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which astronomers use to study very distant and very faint galaxies. Lensing clusters are clusters of elliptical galaxies whose ...