California Academy of Sciences

It’s time to raise a glass for NightLife’s annual salute to brews and the ocean’s most legendary apex predators. 🍻🦈

Dragons are real—and real hungry for marine algae. See landscapes, creatures, & flora that rival any fantasy world in our 2019 BigPicture exhibit, featuring some of the best nature & wildlife photographers on Earth! / 📷 Aquatic Life winner Pier Mane

Some of Earth's most incredible nature & wildlife photography, all in one place: Our 2019 BigPicture exhibit is now open! Winners & finalists (chosen from 6,500+ submissions) will be on display through Oct. 20. 📷 Terrestrial Wildlife winner Mike Korostelev

Step this way to explore the shape-shifting, color-changing, uniquely personal nature of skin in our newest exhibit, “Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity.” From rhinoceroses & humans to insects & birds, it's deeper than you may think.

‪From our Solar System to the Virgo Supercluster, the big, beautiful, cosmos-sized show "Passport to the Universe" (narrated by Tom Hanks!) offers an astronaut’s-eye view of the incredible objects that constitute our Universe. ‬