California Academy of Sciences

Methuselah is a four-foot-long Australian lungfish, weighing around 40 pounds. The primitive species have lungs and gills and are believed to be the evolutionary link between fish and amphibians.

An elderly fish that likes to eat fresh figs and get belly rubs is believed to be the world’s oldest living aquarium fish

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.

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...

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

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.

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.