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How hard can a bat bite, and why does it matter? Curator Sharlene Santana explains the evolutionary insights to be learned from bite force.

Ted Pietsch retired in July after 37 years as Burke Museum curator of fishes and professor in the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.

WA State Dept. of Ecology scientist Maggie Dutch partners with the Burke’s Puget Sound Foram Research Lab to study Puget Sound.

Cherokee, Tlingit and Filipino storyteller, Gene Tagaban, aka “One Crazy Raven,” helped the Burke celebrate the Seahawks' trip to Super Bowl XLIX.

The recovery and preparation of Washington's first dinosaur fossil nicknamed Suciasaurus.

Developing “barcodes” with fungi DNA helps easily identify species.

Matt McElroy hopes to answer how and why biological evolution occurred in the past, and what role thermal adaptation played in this process.

Researchers sink their teeth into this tricky evolutionary question.

By extracting phytoliths from once-living plants, scientists were able to uncover a story of vegetation change in response to climate.