News & Stories

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.

Recent testing confirmed the presence of woolly dog hair in a Coast Salish blanket from the Burke Museum’s collections.

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.

Analyzing the limited samples of the oviraptorosaur to answer lingering questions about this species' growth and anatomy.

What the future holds for spiders and other species in forest areas cleared for logging.