Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...

All creatures great and small (and spineless) have a friend in Freeland Dunker, who retired this month after 17 years as the Academy’s senior veterinarian. We’re celebrating World Veterinary Day on ...

Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. Daily, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Watch as a diver plunges into one of the world's deepest living coral reef tanks. Daily, ...

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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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Lush and green, hot and humid—Earth in the days of the dinosaurs teemed with plant life. Even the North and South Poles were covered with forests! Some prehistoric species are ancestors of modern-day ...

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Thu May 15 at 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm, 8:30 pm, 9:30 pm - Planetarium Representation of the Thunderbird and Gila Monster by Melvin Bainbridge, via the One Sky Project.

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Academy biologists regularly conduct in-water training and enrichment exercises with our resident rays—which is why human feet occasionally make a webcam cameo. The rays eat clam tongue, prawns, squid ...