Aquarium of the Pacific

Featured on Bones, Season 5, Episode 18

Sharks, Penguins, and More

Formerly named the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, our city’s aquatic menagerie has been a local attraction since it opened in 1998. The aquarium features beautiful tanks filled with unusual species, a cool walk-through Lorikeet Forest, sharks, penguins, marine mammals and more.

Edie, fiberglass blue whale, at the Aquarium of the Pacific — Edie the blue whale

Meet Edie the Blue Whale

Enter the aquarium through a two-story entry hall dominated by Edie, a life-size, 88 ft. long anatomically correct fiberglass model of a blue whale, the world’s largest mammal. Right outside the aquarium you can catch a whale-watching cruise, with a good chance of spotting wild whales practically any time of the year.

Big tank, Aquarium of the Pacific — Blue Cavern tank

Blue Cavern Tank

Past the whale’s tail, you’ll encounter the 142,000 gallon three-story Blue Cavern tank, which houses animals native to the waters surrounding nearby Catalina Island. This is the tank where Brennan and Booth found a skeleton in the Bones episode, “The Predator in the Pool”.

Then wander through two floors of fascinating tanks and exhibits. Don’t miss the sea otter, the leafy sea dragons (like sea horses but way cooler) and Peter’s personal favorite, the Sarcastic Fringehead. He’s not much to looks at, but what a ‘tude!

And don’t forget to pet a shark!