News & Stories

A massive archive of otoliths — fish ear stones — reveals ocean history and fuels modern research.

Scientists were stunned when they discovered a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile almost 9 million years ago.

A look inside the Burke Museum's Research Family.

A feather found in fossilized dinosaur poop can help researchers understand why some birds survived mass extinction 66 million years ago.

Meet Deanna Flores, a visiting researcher who came to the Burke as part of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Study Grant, which provides financial and other support for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to use the collections for their research. 

Meet some of the amazing teachers who joined us at DIG Field School this summer.

A closer look at teeweewas Tillie Jones’s t̓uʔal̕š ad (tumpline) in Woven in Wool: Resilience of Coast Salish Weaving.

Learn more about the Voices in Science program at the Burke Museum.

Here at the Burke, the work that we do together — with your support — informs our collective understanding of the world in which we live.