The California Biodiversity Data Exchange is a groundbreaking collaboration between Cal Academy, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and iNaturalist that transforms community ...

Cal Academy opens at 9:30 a.m. Mon.–Sat. and 11 a.m. Sun. 10:15 a.m. Learn about animals' senses—including your own!—through this interactive Sensory Storytime. Daily, 10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Learn ...

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 ...

“The Forest Of The Monarchs,” a photo of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico, taken by National Geographic Explorer Jaime Rojo won the 2024 BigPicture Grand Prize.

poster or butcher paper construction paper in four different colors to represent the different spheres (we suggest blue to represent hydrosphere, green to represent biosphere, yellow to represent ...

Academy Summer Camp is back for its sophomore season! In 2026, we're doubling our offerings to eight week-long summer camp sessions designed for children ages 9–11 where they’ll reimagine ways to ...

For ichthyology curator Luiz Rocha, childhood was defined by fish and sea. “I had aquaria starting from age 5 or 6,” he says, “and I decided to be a biologist when my third grade science teacher ...

Mind-expanding talks and presentations by the brightest stars in the field of astronomy.

Become a marine biologist for the day and explore the depths of our aquarium to find and identify a variety of marine species. This package includes: Recommended for ages 4 and up. $629 members, $699 ...

Each of the winning images in the BigPicture: Natural World Photography exhibition enshrines a fleeting moment on Earth that might otherwise escape our attention. Visit the exhibition at the Academy ...

Planet home “In Habitat Earth," says Ryan Wyatt, Director of Morrison Planetarium, "we’re advancing the boundaries of traditional planetarium content, which focuses primarily on astronomy and space." ...

The Academy is working to protect endangered creatures and habitats, and helping to shape a sustainable future.