News & Stories

Burke Museum scientists leading effort to create a digital encyclopedia of 3D vertebrate specimens.

What else was hiding in those dusty hills? The team heads back out to find more of the T. rex.

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Seattle is one of the most dramatically re-engineered cities in the United States.

Working with communities to rebuild a traditional Native boat-building practice, bringing this knowledge back into a living context.

For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses. 

Aaron Parker's and Chris Cunningham's premiered their live art performance, ƛ’ix̌aq: Animal Skin, at the Burke Museum.

Luke Tornabene, Burke Museum Curator of Fishes, recently discovered a new species of goby as it was being chased by a lionfish outside of Curacao.

Graduate student John Chau discovers the origin of the Butterfly-bush, a familiar flowering plant in the Seattle area.