Research impact

After nearly a century of silence, Kodiak youth and adults learn how to build a traditional model Angyaat.

Referencing Burke collections to reverse-engineer how this material was made and used in the past so it can be used again in the present.

Study finds egg masses of snailfishes deposited inside the gill cavity of North Pacific king crabs using molecular techniques.

Plants were an integral part of the Coast Salish diets prior to Euro-American colonization but also played central roles in social systems.

30 million years ago, the world lacked its grass-dominated environments, but 70 million years ago, grasses had not evolved—or so we think.

Burke Museum paleontologist uses new laser-induced fluorescent techniques to uncover never-before-seen details on fossils.

Washington's first dinosaur fossil gives insight into what the west coast was like 80 million years ago.

A chance encounter on a windy day leads to the discovery of a new spider habitat.

We look back at what we’ve learned about the Native mask that inspired the original Seattle Seahawks logo in the past year.