The Museum opens at 9:30 am today. An interactive storytime about how humans are connected to each other and the natural world. Daily, 10:15 a.m. Learn about our charismatic African penguin colony ...

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This activity works best if the worksheets with the planet names are placed side-by side on a table, and are arranged to match the order from the Sun. In front of these sheets place the instruction ...

Class Myxini Order Myxiniformes Family Myxinidae Rafinesque 1815 (hagfishes) Subfamily Rubicundinae Fernholm, Norén, Kullander, Quattrini et al.

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Ynes Enriquetta Julieta Mexia was born on May 24, 1870 and spent her first nine years in the town her family founded, Mexia, Texas. Her father was General Enrique A. Mexia, a diplomat and ...

Go with the glow From fluorescent corals and anemones to bioluminescent flashlight fish, animals in the twilight zone use specialized strategies to communicate, feed, and reproduce in the dark. Run ...

learn that trash is composed of two types of waste: organic and inorganic. learn the different between a full-loop life cycle and a linear life cycle. learn that decomposers such as fungi, ...

A colorful, multi-sensory exhibition at the California Academy of Sciences reveals the surprising ways California nature connects people, places, and species—and how we can keep it thriving.

The series, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, beginning 2003, serves to provide the most up-to-date taxonomic treatment of each family of Recent fishes. Experts in each group will use information from ...

How does the finite amount of carbon on this planet move around in the environment, from one place to another? How do the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact? In this active ...

Some of the older and more famous star patterns are called constellations. Some of these are named after figures from ancient legend and folklore because their shapes resemble (or at least suggest) ...