News & Stories

More than fifty years ago, a 25-foot-long dugout canoe was found eroding out of a muddy bank of the Green River.

Do bird populations living on different mountain ranges evolve independently of one another?

This stone woodcarving adze—broken and embedded in a piece of cedar—is unlike most items in our archaeological collections.

Studying microfossil teeth of the Sagebrush Vole from Washington state to understand a pattern of evolution.

A rare Asian songbird was far off course last December when it fatally struck a window on Lopez Island.

Burke paleontologists travel to Antarctica to collect 250-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period.

Meet the Green Darner Dragonfly—the official Washington state insect.

The Burke Museum has a traditional jukung in its Culture collections, but until recently its origins were a mystery.

A local 10-year-old discovered a fossilized mammoth tooth while walking along the beach on Whidbey Island.