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Featured partners of NightLife Says Who

Top row (from left): Alex Hanna, Amy Fiedler, Aurora Cortes, Christine Cordero, Christine Liu, Deniss Martinez. Middle row (from left): Francesca Fiorentini, Kel Larkin, Naomi Garcia, Naomi Maisel, Nia Imara, Olivia VanDamme. Bottom row (from left): Panda Dulce, Rebekah Kim, Sarah Shimazaki, Sthefany Galante Bautista, VERA!, Walter Kitundu.

California Academy of Sciences launches all-new NightLife series: Says Who?

Three-part series uplifts systematically excluded voices in science and questions “storyteller privilege."

Yellow-crowned night heron from Texas
City Nature Challenge records over 1,870,000 wildlife observations in a single weekend

More than 66,300 community scientists participate in the Challenge's eighth year.

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Children measure a Sauropod femur.

Kids get a sense of Sauropod size with a glimpse at a huge fossil replica femur.

The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, an exciting exhibition about super-sized Sauropods, opens May 26 at the California Academy of Sciences

New exhibit delves into the biology and behavior of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk earth.

An iNaturalist user documents an observation on Yerba Buena Island.
Community scientists across the globe compete in City Nature Challenge, April 28 - May 1, 2023

Eighth annual Challenge unites people with nature around the world to document Earth's biodiversity.

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An alligator snapping turtle at Steinhart Aquarium
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
Scientists Solve Longstanding Reptile Mysteries with Landmark Study on the Evolution of Turtles
November 23, 2014

Academy scientists use next-generation sequencing technology to refine a turtle “tree of life.”

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A biologist holds two newly hatched penguin chicks from the California Academy of Sciences
Animal News, Science & Sustainability
Two African Penguin Chicks Hatch at the California Academy of Sciences
November 18, 2014

Recent hatches highlight the success of captive breeding programs in sustaining genetically healthy populations.

Grid of iNaturalist observations
Education, Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
Citizen Science Network iNaturalist Celebrates Millionth Nature Observation as it Launches New Visual Maps
November 10, 2014

iNaturalist.org's new series of maps connects the network's community to the natural world like never before.

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Entomology specimens collected on the Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition
Science & Sustainability
Scientific Collaborative Publishes Landmark Study on the Evolution of Insects
November 5, 2014

Dr. Michelle Trautwein lends fly expertise to study on the evolution of insects.

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Programs & Events
California Academy of Sciences Announces New Fellowship
October 28, 2014

The Osher Fellows program is an extension of more than 30 years of support from the Bernard Osher Foundation.

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Children at an exhibit during 'Tis the Season for Science
Exhibits, Programs & Events
'Tis the Season for Science Returns to the California Academy of Sciences
October 21, 2014

Celebrate the winter holidays with a scientific twist from November 26, 2014 – January 4, 2015

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Leadership
California Academy of Sciences Welcomes New Fellows, 
Bestows Annual Awards
October 10, 2014

Meet our new fellows and emeritus curators.

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Four New Members Elected to Serve on the California Academy of Sciences’ Board of Trustees
September 29, 2014

Meet the new members of our board of trustees.

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