News & Stories Photo: Cathy Morris/Burke Museum Photo: Cathy Morris/Burke Museum Filter News All Topics Amphibians & Reptiles Archaeology Art & Artists Birds Bugs Burke at Work Climate Change Dinosaurs Environments Equity & Inclusion Fish Fossils Gems & Minerals Grant project Heritage In the Field Mammals New Burke News Plants & Fungi Research impact Shells & Molluscs All Types News Blog Video Showing 37-45 of 295 articles RSS Feed News Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolvedOctober 25, 2021A new study traces the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs. More Details Native Art Grants Available October 21, 2021The Burke Museum is excited to announce grant applications are open for Native artists to visit the museum’s cultural collections. More Details Blog Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!October 8, 2021October 11 is a day of honor for the Indigenous people of this land. More Details Video Celebrating Latinx HeritageOctober 7, 2021Learn how three Burke Museum staff members celebrate Latinx Heritage Month and how their culture influences their work and home life. More Details News Four Dinosaurs Discovered in MontanaSeptember 20, 2021A team of Burke Museum and University of Washington paleontologists excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. More Details Blog Acknowledging the Land, Building Deeper RelationshipsAugust 24, 2021Burke Museum Tribal Liaison and Yakama Nation member Polly Olsen shares the work and relationships involved in creating land acknowledgements. More Details News More Pepper, PleaseAugust 11, 2021New study analyzes role of scent compounds in the co-evolution of bats and pepper plants. More Details News New DNA Study Provides Critical Information on Conserving Rainforest LizardsAugust 2, 2021A recent study published in the journal Biotropica by Burke Museum researchers provides an important roadmap to conserving rough-nosed horned lizards (Ceratophora aspera) in Sri Lanka. More Details Blog Herbarium Foray program: Celebrating 25 years of collection and communityJuly 28, 2021The Herbarium celebrates its 25th Annual Foray. More Details Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last » Explore More See All Resource Plants & Fungi of Washington Image Collection Images and information about bloom time, habitat, and distribution range for the plants and fungi species that grow wild in Washington state. More Details Resource Idaho Wildflowers App The Burke Museum Herbarium and its partners have released plant identification apps for the wildflowers of Idaho. More Details Resource Mammal Diversity An interactive tree diagram showing the pathways of relatedness and historical evolution of today’s 29 different mammal orders. More Details