In the Field

Researcher Ana Bedoya Ovalle returns to Colombia to collect and study river-weed plants in South America.

Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.

Burke paleontologists travel to Zambia in search for answers to the most colossal extinction on earth.

A paleontology research expedition to Antarctica—one of the most difficult places to do fieldwork in the world.

The Burke’s Paleontology team ventured to the Petrified Forest and found specimens that can answer questions about the Late Triassic period.

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

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

Dig into the excavations of Burke curator Christian Sidor's team and their discovery of fossils of early carnivorous dinosaurs.

Burke Mammalogy researchers head to the North Cascades in pursuit of the elusive Northern Bog Lemming.