News & Stories

Katherine Maslenikov, Ichthyology Collection Manager, helps with underwater fieldwork along coral reefs in Roatan, Honduras.

Burke Museum paleontologists continue work on the rare T. rex skull, recently finding that all jaw and skull bones are there.

Researcher Ana Bedoya Ovalle returns to Colombia to collect and study river-weed plants in South America.

If you’ve been to the museum or walked by the main entrance lately, you may have noticed some changes to the outdoor art.

Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.

Burke paleontologists travel to Zambia in search for answers to the most colossal extinction on earth.

Members of the Native American Cultural Group at the Washington State Reformatory Unit in Monroe recently created a very special button blanket for the Museum.

A look inside the process of creating the G̱a̱lg̱a̱poła (Working Together) digital book.

Considering not only the visual aspects of historical Native art, but also the intangible properties to which they are connected.