News & Stories

New research explores the unique evolutionary relationship between short-tailed fruit bats and New World pepper plants.

Information about The Ancient One/Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America.

Dig into the excavations of Burke curator Christian Sidor's team and their discovery of fossils of early carnivorous dinosaurs.

When dams cause stagnant lakes to form, frogs may have a harder time reaching opposite sides of lakes and maintaining high levels of genetic variation.

The New Burke celebrated the completion of the building's steel frame with the traditional "Topping Out" ceremony.

Paleontologists picking through a bounty of fossils from Montana have discovered something unexpected.

Burke Mammalogy researchers head to the North Cascades in pursuit of the elusive Northern Bog Lemming.

A Burke Museum graduate student travels to Colombia to study the tropical diversity of river-weed plants.

Beginning 4,000 years ago, people shifted from living solely on wild foods to farming and raising domestic animals. Why did this change occur?