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When you hit a milestone, what do you do? Sing about it, of course! This week, UC Berkeley announced the amazing growth of its project, AmphibiaWeb, an online catalogue of the world’s amphibians created to encourage more field monitoring and lab studies of the threatened animals. David Wake, an Academy fellow from UC Berkeley, started the project in 2000 because amphibians were declining at ...

Your Academy adventure starts here! Bundle Academy admission with 3 more top SF attractions and save 46% with San Francisco CityPASS®.; Visit for free all year long by becoming a member.; Discounted admission is available at the ticket window for EBT/CalFresh, WIC, Lifeline Pass, and Medi-Cal cardholders; Please note: Morrison Planetarium will be closed for annual maintenance Feb. 24-26.

Be mesmerized by a variety of graceful ray species and shimmering schools of tropical fish swimming across your screen. Enjoy the antics of thousands of tropical fish in our Philippine Coral Reef exhibit—one of the world's deepest living indoor coral reefs. 30 …

What happens when you try to reverse the effects of ocean acidification? Approximately one-quarter of our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are absorbed by the oceans, leading to oceans becoming more acidic.Coral reefs are particularly vulnerable to this ocean acidification process, because reef architecture is built by the accretion of calcium carbonate (a process called calcification), which ...

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New treatment of synonyms: Often an author revises a genus and treats a species in detail but does not mention the species synonyms (if any). If he/she does not mention the synonyms (rather common in recent treatments) and moves the valid “parent” species to a different genus, do we move the synonyms automatically, although the revising …

Morrison Planetarium shows are fueled by cutting-edge scientific data, resulting in stunning visualizations of the latest observations, discoveries, and theories about our Universe.