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October 21, 2013

Washington state is home to a wide variety of fossils. Best of all, there age has several fossil sites that are open to the public.

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October 15, 2013

This 37-foot story pole carved by William Shelton is being repaired thanks to help from the community.

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September 14, 2013

Today, Native peoples are overcoming barriers to revitalize their relationship to traditional foods. 

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September 14, 2013

Archaeological sites around Puget Sound have found more than 280 plants, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, shellfish and other marine life used as traditional Coast Salish cuisine.

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August 7, 2013

Model Chinese ships are an important record of this form of shipbuilding preceding modern ships made of steel and fiberglass.

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July 8, 2013

From Amazonian jungles to Mexico's deserts, the diversity of these ecosystems is unrivaled. It is home to earth’s greatest biodiversity.

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December 13, 2012

The totem pole, which had become a symbol of "American Indianess," was not a traditional art form of the southern Coast Salish peoples.

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November 7, 2012

Sharlene Santana studies how behavior, diet, anatomy and function result in bursts of diversification in tropical bats.

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October 29, 2012

Researcher Regan Dunn reconstructs what types of vegetation existed in ancient Patagonia to understand the impact of climate change.

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