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Children’s Puppet Theater: Choose Your Own Sauropod Adventure Daily, 11:00 am Science Today Station Choose your own adventure! Join this exciting stage program where your choices determine what ...
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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, ...
Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...
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, ...
The gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231 is considered one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a ...
H. sagamius lives in the Pacific Ocean at depths of 2,000 to 3,300 feet, where sunlight doesn't penetrate. Food is scarce in the deep, and chance encounters in total darkness are rare, so the ...
The Atlas moth lives in Asia, from India to the Philippines and south to Indonesia. It belongs to the family Saturniidae, or giant silkworm moths, which has a worldwide distribution. The Atlas moth is ...
While there are many hundreds of species of hawkmoths found throughout the tropics, Darwin’s hawkmoth, with its 9- to 14-inch-long coiled proboscis, is found only in Madagascar. Xanthopan morgani ...
Dr. Lauren Esposito started her entomology collection at a young age. As a kid, she had a fondness for exploring the yard, flipping over rocks and storing found insects in egg cartons, although it ...
The islands of the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and are located nearly 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco. The Farallones host ...
Although he grew up on the other side of the country in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, Bart Shepherd was drawn to the Academy at an early age. A youthful aquarium hobbyist who began keeping tropical fish ...