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 ...

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Divide class into small work groups of four to six students each and provide each group with an Insect Habitat Card and a set of art supplies. Each student will need an Invent an Insect worksheet.

Free and low-cost admission opportunities, field trips, and other access programs make the Academy open to all.

Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, the authoritative reference for taxonomic fish names with a searchable database.

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 ...

Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony from an Academy biologist. 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily.

Become an ocean chemistry expert in this exploration of the connection between sea, sky, and you. Daily, 2 pm.

Tonight is all about access, expression, and the joy of movement with our partners AXIS Dance Company.

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, ...

Join us for an imaginative program to learn what it would be like to transform into a splitfin flashlight fish!