Planetarium shows are included with Daytime Admission, but capacity is limited for the safety of our guests and staff. Reservations are required and are available on a first-come, first-served basis: ...

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 ...

Glow Below: A Flashlight Fish Show Daily; 1:00 p.m. Piazza. Have you ever wanted to transform into another animal? Join us for this imaginative program where the audience imagines what it would be ...

A Very Special Collections Tour: Mammalogy's Extinct, Endangered, & Type-Specimen Cases Mammalogy Collections Manager Moe Flannery. Join Ornithology and Mammalogy collections manager Moe Flannery for ...

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 ...

At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

Scientific Name: Odocoileus hemionus cerrosensisAge [Sex]: Adult [F] Collection Date: 21 Jun 1911 Locality: Santa Cruz IslandHigher Geography: North America, USA ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 16, 2025) — WHAT: Three fully mature sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) are now on exhibit for the first time in the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 15, 2025) — A breathtaking image of a mother lemur precipitously leaping between jagged rocks in Madagascar, her baby clinging tightly to her back, has taken top honors in the ...

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This season, the largest of the planets moves from the evening sky to the morning sky. On April 1, it's located low in the west against the stars of Aries the Ram, setting less than 3 hours after the ...