Check out the newly refurbished children’s nature center, Outside In.
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Zoot: A Day in the Life
Zoot, our blue and gold macaw, lives behind the scenes in the Academy’s Live Animal Center.
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Specimens From a Famous Expedition
Take a one-of-a-kind look at a specimen from our Botany Collection.
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Passenger Pigeons
Can you imagine what a flock of more than a billion birds looks like?
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Corresponding With Darwin
Read an excerpt from Charles Darwin’s letter to Joseph Leidy.
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Discovering the Jocotoco
It sounds like an owl, but this creature won’t be showing up in your backyard! In fact, the jocotoco antpitta[…]
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Tiktaalik on Camera
In July 2013, a crew of four filmmakers joined Ted Daeschler and his colleagues for their trip to the southern Ellesmere Island site where they discovered Tiktaalik roseae.
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Hedgehog Tales
Hedgehogs join the Academy!
Read moreUnnatural History: The Odd and Remarkable Dioramas of Lori Nix Opens in the Art of Science Gallery
Lori Nix’s photographs imagine what goes on in dioramas.
Read moreOrchids of Pennsylvania
When you think of an orchid, you probably imagine the Cattleya orchid that is given as a corsage on special occasions and[…]
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