California Academy of Sciences

Visiting a good museum can inspire the spirit and mind. Luckily, one of California’s best is now open. The California Academy of Sciences has new in-person exhibits including an immersive photography experience and venom exhibit.

Another whale has washed ashore in the Bay Area. The carcass of a 58-foot fin whale was found between Brighton and Agate Beach in Bolinas. Officials said the whale washed ashore on Tuesday and the discovery comes after two dead whales were found last week in Oakland and Marin County.

The carcass of a 58-foot fin whale was found between Brighton and Agate Beach in Bolinas Thursday. Officials said the whale washed ashore on Tuesday and the discovery comes after two dead whales were found last week in Oakland and Marin County.

Penguins are looking for love with big red hearts at a San Francisco aquarium.

A dead humpback whale washed up on the Point Reyes National Seashore on Christmas Eve.

Santa Claus doesn’t just sit at shopping malls in snow-challenged San Francisco: He also goes scuba diving. The California Academy of Sciences launched its annual Scuba Santa show Tuesday with about 100 children and adults crowded around a coral reef exhibit to watch jolly St. Nick feed fish. Diver George Bell also answered questions via underwater microphone about the reef...

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For the first time in nearly 40 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the United States and it has more than just astronomy fanatics in a frenzy of excitement. While many have already made preparations for the event, here are some facts about the upcoming eclipse.

Glasses fogged and sweat droplets forming, visitors enter a tropical oasis where biologists are releasing some colorful new additions for a conservation exhibit open to the public Friday.

Penguins at a California aquarium got more than their daily helping of fish to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

A dozen scientists conducting a necropsy Thursday on a blue whale carcass that washed ashore Wednesday off the coast of Daly City found multiple skull fractures, which they say are indicative of blunt force trauma, but a definitive cause of death has not yet been determined.

A dead whale was found Wednesday afternoon washed up on Thornton State Beach in Daly City. (Oct. 26, 2016)

Supervisor Scott Wiener on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow developers to substitute a “green roof” for solar panels on new construction.

A 35-foot whale from a deep water species rarely found near shore was found dead on a beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday, according to the Marine Mammal Center.

Some visitors at Alcatraz Island caught what appears to be a great white shark about noon on Saturday eating a seal, while blood swirls in the salty bay waters.

The highlight of a Texas’ family’s trip to San Francisco was a shark devouring a sea lion.

A team of 14 scientists performed a necropsy on the whale that was found floating in the Oakland Estuary on Wednesday morning, according to the Marine Mammal Center.

He’s the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, has won the 2015 Three Point Contest and holds many more records. As if that wasn’t enough, Stephen Curry now has a baby penguin named after him.

A dead whale washed up on a Point Reyes National Seashore beach this week is the latest of many reported in Northern California this spring, but experts said Wednesday that the influx is probably caused more by strong winds and a large whale population in the area than by any increase in mortality.