Academy of Natural Sciences
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The fascinating world of rainforests and the animals that inhabit them are the focus of the new exhibition opening February 17 at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Staff will explain what makes these animals unique, their special adaptations and how they live in the rainforest. Animal Trainings: 1 p.m. –
Academy of Natural Sciences
MAY 22, 2024
Black Birders Week is fast approaching, and the Academy of Natural Sciences is gearing up to celebrate in style. The event includes discussions with local birdwatching group members, an opportunity to examine specimens from the Ornithology Collection and an immersive journey through the rainforest in the Under the Canopy exhibit.
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Academy of Natural Sciences
JANUARY 12, 2023
The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 12, 2023
I loved nature and I always read about places like the Amazon rainforest or Madagascar rainforest and imagined going somewhere like that,” he recalled. Growing up in Philadelphia, Njie was a “city boy” who dreamed about one day traveling abroad to study tropical ecosystems. “I
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 27, 2022
Robert Peck, senior fellow and artifacts curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences, has his fingerprints all over the world of natural history. ” Peck in the mountainous rainforests of Ecuador. When asked whether he was scared for his life, he politely laughs. “No, No, not until much later,” he says.
Academy of Natural Sciences
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Entomology Collection Manager Jason Weintraub, who found some celebrity specimens both within our Entomology Collection and our Fungi Herbarium, has also seen these fungi in real life on research visits to the rainforests of Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 7, 2023
These places are a small yet important piece of the larger central African rainforest system. Many of the species thriving there, including freshwater fishes, are found nowhere else on the planet.
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