The Plants to Pixels project empowers botany buffs everywhere to make meaningful contributions to science anytime. Here's how: Transcribe: If available, enter the following pieces of specimen data ...

An interactive storytime about how humans are connected to each other and the natural world. Daily, 10:15 a.m. Watch as a diver plunges into one of the world's deepest living coral reef tanks. Daily, ...

WHAT: Immerse yourself in the newly refreshed Twilight Zone: Deep Reefs Revealed exhibit, which recently reopened after ...

This is a recurring event. Check the daily calendar for more schedule information.

The Academy's Teen Advocates for Science Communication volunteers have created a music video parody in celebration of the Pterosaurs exhibit. The TASC Leadership Design Team created the vision, wrote ...

Although we make every attempt to provide reliable taxonomic, biological, distribution and ecological data, we cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy of these data. Identifications are provisional and ...

Dumbacher, et al. recently published data on the distribution of toxin in the bodies of pitohuis (Dumbacher, J.P., G.K. Menon, and J.W. Daly. 2009. Skin as a toxin storage organ in the endemic New ...

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 ...

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Scientists have come to understand a great deal about the evolution of skulls by studying the fossil record. They know that prior to about 500 million years ago, no creature possessed a skull. Over ...

Growing up, after the loss of a sweetheart or a baseball, I was comforted by my parents who said, "Oh, don't worry, there are plenty more fish in the sea." They will soon join the passenger pigeon in ...

Coloration provides a tremendous amount of information within a Gouldian finch population and plays an important role in mate selection and reproductive success. Male and female Gouldian finches share ...