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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."

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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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Liebe Patterson
Leadership
The Academy elects Elizabeth Patterson as Chair of the Board
August 1, 2018

The Academy is pleased to announce the election of Elizabeth “Liebe” Patterson as the new chair of its board.

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The Academy in Golden Gate Park
Leadership
Executive Director Jonathan Foley to assume new role as Senior Scholar
July 16, 2018

Executive Director Jonathan Foley to assume new role as Senior Scholar.

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Exhibits, Science & Sustainability
Deep-diving scientists say deep "twilight zone" reefs are vulnerable to threats challenging shallow reefs
July 12, 2018

Deep mesophotic reefs are unique systems bursting with life and deserving of lasting protection.

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Exhibits, Science & Sustainability
Winning images from the Academy's annual BigPicture photography competition to go on exhibit July 27
July 9, 2018

48 top images represent the best in nature and conservation photography from around the world.

iNaturalist observation
Science & Sustainability
The Academy and National Geographic Society join forces to enhance global wildlife observation network iNaturalist
June 26, 2018

A growing user community helps observe and monitor more than 165,000 species around the world.

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Nudibranch in aquarium

With the Academy's new Snapchat Lenses, take a colorful and charismatic nudibranch wherever you go.

Education, Science & Sustainability
New Snapchat Lenses bring coral reefs to life—anywhere you are
June 19, 2018

Watch a colorful nudibranch crawl across your desk or be circled by a green sea turtle with new Snapchat Lenses.

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NightLife LIVE performance
Programs & Events
NightLife LIVE announces lineup for summer 2018 concerts
June 11, 2018

Summer music series returns to the Academy from July through October.

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Science & Sustainability
New invention safely transports unknown, deep-dwelling fishes to the ocean’s surface
June 1, 2018

Scientific divers at the California Academy of Sciences engineer a portable chamber to study new fishes.

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