Visitors to the California Academy of Sciences are familiar with the towering Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton greeting guests at the main entrance. Now, that T. rex has new dinosaur friends in the outdoor gardens.
“Picture this,” said Leah Kalish, California Academy of Sciences’ manager of youth engagement. “You’re at Ocean Beach, digging for crabs. It’s cold, it’s 10 a.m. and your pants are wet.”
From Sept. 4 to 9, the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park hosted “Voyage of Europa Clipper: Exploring an Alien Ocean,” a special exhibit sponsored by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The pop-up was designed to engage the public about the JPL’s mission to send a spacecraft to Europa in hopes of confirming conditions suitable for extraterrestrial life.
From the California Academy of Sciences: On May 24, the California Academy of Sciences will unveil a new permanent exhibition, California: State of Nature, that illuminates the unexpected connections between the species, places, and […]
The usual signs of spring are everywhere in Golden Gate Park. Golden poppies and magnolia trees are blooming and the ground is covered in green grass and nasturtium. Adding to this spring fever is the “Spring in the Garden” exhibition at the California Academy of Sciences, ongoing now through April 28.
The California Academy of Sciences is excited to reveal the age of beloved Australian lungfish Methuselah (Neoceratodus forsteri), the oldest living fish in an aquarium anywhere in the world. Cutting-edge DNA analysis led by Dr. Ben Mayne of CSIRO and Dr. David T. Roberts of Seqwater estimated Methuselah’s age to be 92 (± 9 years), older than her previously estimated age of 84.
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