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Academy biologists sustainably source many of the butterfly species found in our rainforest exhibit.
Citizen scientists can help scientists and policy-makers track changes in the environment.
Biologists in the Steinhart Aquarium use enrichment and training to keep animals healthy and engaged.
Follow Academy ant man Brian Fisher's years-long quest to find one ant species in Madagascar.
How did insects evolve to become one of the largest groups of animals on the planet?
Welcome to the twilight zone of the ocean, where the sun barely reaches and the fish have big eyes.
Scientists are using CT scanning and 3D imaging to study the endoskeletons of armored lizards.
Academy scientists are collecting, breeding and studying Lake Oku clawed frogs.
From the remote deserts of Namibia comes a new (to science) species of mammal: the tiny Entendeka sengi.
Tardigrades, or waterbears, are amazing extremophiles that live everywhere!
Anelasma squalicola, a parasitic barnacle, sucks the life and the reproductive capabilities out of its host.
Dylan Burge studies the plants that survive and thrive in serpentine soil.