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The Academy is conveniently located within 10 minutes of four MUNI bus and Metro lines, listed below in order of nearest to farthest from our main entrance. Go green, ride MUNI! Biking in and around ...

Class Myxini Order Myxiniformes Family Myxinidae Rafinesque 1815 (hagfishes) Subfamily Rubicundinae Fernholm, Norén, Kullander, Quattrini et al.

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 ...

If you want your students to practice their measuring skills, you can structure this activity so that each student gets a chance to measure. Put students in groups of six, and give each group a liter ...

The Department of Ichthyology houses one of the largest and most important research collections of its kind in the world. There are over 200,000 cataloged lots (jars) containing roughly 1.6 million ...

Let students know that they are beginning to construct explanations about what flower features attract their pollinator. Their explanations right now are only based on observations in the field, which ...

The Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences are a group of distinguished scientists, nominated and appointed in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the natural sciences. Fellows ...

Some of the older and more famous star patterns are called constellations. Some of these are named after figures from ancient legend and folklore because their shapes resemble (or at least suggest) ...

The collections at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) have been amassed over a period of nearly 200 years. These collections include both physical scientific specimens and written data ...

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Did Claude really eat a ballet slipper? Why are there whale bones on our roof? Is there really a sea monster in our basement? At the Academy, there’s a story behind every species. Join a VIP Tour for ...