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Insects are as interesting to this artist as to entomologists.
Read moreOutside In Makeover
Check out the newly refurbished children’s nature center, Outside In.
Read moreZoot: A Day in the Life
Zoot, our blue and gold macaw, lives behind the scenes in the Academy’s Live Animal Center.
Read moreSpecimens From a Famous Expedition
Take a one-of-a-kind look at a specimen from our Botany Collection.
Read morePassenger Pigeons
Can you imagine what a flock of more than a billion birds looks like?
Read moreCorresponding With Darwin
Read an excerpt from Charles Darwin’s letter to Joseph Leidy.
Read moreDiscovering the Jocotoco
It sounds like an owl, but this creature won’t be showing up in your backyard! In fact, the jocotoco antpitta[…]
Read moreTiktaalik 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.
Read moreHedgehog Tales
Hedgehogs join the Academy!
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