What Eats What

Big fishes eat little fishes, which eat littler fishes, which eat bugs, worms, and microscopic animals, which eat algae and bits of plants, which don’t eat anything at all but instead get their energy from the sun. Energy keeps the ecological community alive, and the flow of energy from one organism to another is called a food chain.

What Eats What presents the consumers and producers that make up the food chain in a stream. It also tells a story of environmental research pioneered here at the Academy.

What Eats What is located on the second level.

Science at the Academy

Science at the Academy showcases some of the world-class science conducted at the Academy. View videos, photos and specimens from our research on birds, fish, fossils, insects, microscopic diatoms, mollusks and plants.

Science at the Academy also features Tiktaalik roseae, the famous fossil that marks the transition between finned-fishes and limbed tetrapods.

This exhibit is located outside the Auditorium.

Marveling at Mollusks

Marveling at Mollusks showcases nearly 100 specimens of clams, scallops, conches, cowries, land snails, chambered nautiluses and many other mollusks from the scientific collections of the Academy’s Malacology Department.

Marveling at Mollusks is located on the mezzanine above the main entrance.