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The Museum opens at 9:30 am today. Watch as a diver plunges into one of the world's deepest living coral reef tanks. Daily, 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Watch as a diver plunges into the world's deepest ...

Where do the heaviest elements come from? It's a little more complicated than we once thought. Join us for this lecture featuring Dr. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, University of California, Santa Cruz, a ...

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This Native American Heritage Month, discover the age-old, ecologically important tradition of cultural burning with the North Fork Mono Tribe. Well before Californians became accustomed to massive, ...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers have tiny fins and no swim bladder, yet are able to travel as deep as 480 feet.

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Although corals are tiny organisms, they construct some of the largest and most ecologically important structures in the world. Members of a diverse group that includes jellyfish and anemones, most ...

Today, Dumbacher’s main focus rests in the famed Galápagos Islands. Through their joint research lab, Dumbacher and San Francisco State University Professor Jaime Chaves, PhD, have launched a series ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...