The Academy is open for members only every Tuesday from 8:30-9:30 am and Sunday from 10-11 am. Watch as a diver plunges into one of the world's deepest living coral reef tanks. Daily, 11:30 am and ...

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, ...

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, ...

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Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently, and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and planning in advance can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an ...

Clockwise from top left: Priya David Clemens, Will Evers, Staci Slaughter, Ahmed Muhammad, Enkhush Amarbal. If you are a journalist and would like to receive Academy press releases please contact ...

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 ...

What's better than a day at the beach? Thirty of them! From June 1 through June 30, more than 6,000 people across California participated in Snapshot Cal Coast, Cal Academy’s annual campaign to ...

We've compiled a professional development toolkit to share what we’ve learned while running Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) trainings for thousands of teachers throughout the Bay Area. The ...

Monarch—a beloved piece of Academy history—was one of the last Ursus arctos californicus, a now-extinct grizzly bear subspecies. Find him on exhibit in California: State of Nature. Monarch's role in ...

While there are many hundreds of species of hawkmoths found throughout the tropics, Darwin’s hawkmoth, with its 9- to 14-inch-long coiled proboscis, is found only in Madagascar. Xanthopan morgani ...