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. –

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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ESA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Tom used his passion for conservation and understanding the consequence of losing the tropical rainforest to inform policy makers and other thought leaders worldwide on the critical role society needs to play in conserving the earth we rely upon. Patrick was also a valued Hutchinson colleague at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

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