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 ...

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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 ...

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 (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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 19, 2024) — Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences described 138 new animal, plant, and fungi species in 2024, enriching our understanding of Earth’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 11, 2025) — The California Academy of Sciences is gearing up to celebrate one of our most iconic residents: Claude, the beloved albino alligator, who turns 30 on September 15 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (December 17, 2015) — In 2015, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 103 new plant and animal species to our family tree, enriching our understanding of Earth’s complex ...

“No one has looked at the evolution of the very earliest sea lily fossils in quite this way before,” says Rich Mooi, a collaborator on the paper, and an invertebrate zoology curator at the California ...

SAN FRANCISCO (June 4, 2018) – Strange and beautiful fishes from the ocean’s deep and lesser-known twilight zone reefs are hitching a ride to the surface thanks to the newly invented SubCAS (or ...