SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 21, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences and partners at The Marine Mammal Center can confirm the unfortunate news that 24 whales have died in the wider San Francisco Bay ...

30 years young and still iconic. Celebrate the coolest alligator with albinism at a birthday bash like no other.

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, ...

Learn about our African penguin colony from an Academy biologist during this member program. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.

When the lights dim, the museum comes alive at NightLife. With live DJs, hand-crafted drinks, glowing lights, and 60,000 live animals (including familiar faces like Claude, our alligator with albinism ...

The Shake House transports you back in time to 1989 and 1906, when two devastating earthquakes along the San Andreas shook the San Francisco Bay Area and changed the face of our region forever. By ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 26, 2025) — Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences and partners rediscovered a presumed-extinct black stony coral species in the Galápagos—its first sighting in 24 ...