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 199-207 of 306 articles RSS Feed Blog The search for the bog lemming in the North CascadesJanuary 13, 2017Burke Mammalogy researchers head to the North Cascades in pursuit of the elusive Northern Bog Lemming. More Details Blog Searching for river-weed plants in Northern South AmericaJanuary 11, 2017A Burke Museum graduate student travels to Colombia to study the tropical diversity of river-weed plants. More Details News How does rainfall affect prehistoric and current farming practices?January 11, 2017Beginning 4,000 years ago, people shifted from living solely on wild foods to farming and raising domestic animals. Why did this change occur? More Details Blog Herbarium Foray program: 20 years of collections and communityJanuary 10, 2017The Herbarium Foray Program turns 20. More Details Blog Using fossil plants to more accurately understand past climatesDecember 28, 2016A new method of sampling fossil leaves allows researchers to more accurately predict climate temperatures. More Details News Fossilized evidence of a tumor in a 255-million-year-old mammal forerunnerDecember 8, 2016When paleontologists cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than they bargained for—more teeth, to be specific. More Details News Mammals during Age of Dinosaurs packed a powerful biteDecember 8, 2016An early mammal that had, pound-for-pound, the strongest bite force of any mammal ever recorded. More Details Blog Part of the T. rex lower jaw emerges (with teeth!)December 1, 2016The Burke paleontology team is preparing a portion of the lower right jaw from the 66.3-million-year-old T. rex discovered this summer. More Details Blog Ancient Coast Salish canoe project launchesNovember 22, 2016More than fifty years ago, a 25-foot-long dugout canoe was found eroding out of a muddy bank of the Green River. More Details Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Current page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 … Next page Next › Last page Last » Explore More See All Resource Spider Myths Spider expert Rod Crawford tackles the most common myths he hears in an attempt to set the record straight about spiders. 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 Resource Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria More than 2.4 million plant, fungal, lichen, and algal specimen records from the Pacific Northwest. More Details