News & Stories

Twenty-five years ago, the film Jurassic Park appeared on the big screen along with the famous fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex.

They've made many trips to the Burke Museum to see the T. rex this past year and formed a special friendship along the way.

The history of the Burke Museum Malacology Collection dates back to the origins of the museum itself.

Malacology is the study of molluscs, a large and spectacularly diverse group of soft-bodied, invertebrate animals.

A recent study of foraminifera found both good and bad news in two highly industrialized Puget Sound embayments.

The first of two new signs was installed at the New Burke earlier today!

A paleontology research expedition to Antarctica—one of the most difficult places to do fieldwork in the world.

A specimen from a tree that once stood on the site of the new Burke Museum is the first object to be moved into the new building.

Meet Wimahl chinookensis, a new species of fossil dolphin that lived about 18 million years ago in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.