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Barker and Burke collections left the museum’s walls and journeyed behind bars at the Washington State Reformatory Unit in Monroe.
You Otter Know: The Big Bites of Little Sea Creatures
Preparation begins on the “Tufts-Love Rex”, excavation from the field complete.
A small tear revealed a rare piece history hiding in plain sight.
Video shows invasive lionfish feasting on new Caribbean fish species
For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses.
One of the specimens of Magnuviator ovimonsensis found at Egg Mountain.
Dinosaurs at the Burke Museum by Dino Weekend
Uncover thousands of years of history in Washington state at the Burke Museum's Archaeology Day.
A new study by Burke Museum and University of Washington paleontologists describes an early marsupial relative called Didelphodon vorax that lived alongside ferocious dinosaurs and had, pound-for-pound, the strongest bite force of any mammal ever recorded.