Dónde la música y la memoria se encuentran. Join us for our third annual Día de los Muertos celebration, una noche en Oaxaca, honoring tradition through art, music, and community. In partnership with ...

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Mandarin dragonets live in the western Pacific Ocean, from Hong Kong down to Australia. (Laos and the Federated States of Micronesia have both paid them tribute on postage stamps.) The species has not ...

The Swamp is best known as the home of Claude, the startlingly white Alligator mississippiensis who's become one of the Academy's most famous residents. Go below for underwater, eye-to-eye views of ...

Ynes Enriquetta Julieta Mexia was born on May 24, 1870 and spent her first nine years in the town her family founded, Mexia, Texas. Her father was General Enrique A. Mexia, a diplomat and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 18, 2025) — Academy researchers and partners made the first discovery of both a new genus and species of plant in a U.S. national park in nearly 50 years. The ...

The Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences is at the forefront of efforts to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and ...

“The Permian-Triassic extinction serves as a model for studying biodiversity loss on our planet today,” says Academy Curator of Geology Peter Roopnarine, PhD. “In this study, we determined that ...

In this new study, however, the researchers took a more detailed look at both adults and juveniles of the multicolored marvel, measuring and counting various features, such as the color of adult males ...

This could pose a big problem for honeybees, since they use floral odors to help locate, identify, and recognize the flowers from which they forage. And we humans depend on this foraging to pollinate ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 12, 2023) — In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and ...