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Burke Museum Curator of Paleobotany Dr. Caroline Stömberg shares how paleobotany, the study of fossil plants, can teach us about past environments and climates, and help us to better predict what the future might look like.

Ninety-five years of boundless curiosity, of limitless sharing of skills and knowledge, of earnest creating of connections across generations, across cultures, is the cherished legacy we have all received from him.

How does our understanding of past and present ecologies allow us to imagine new ethics of care and responsibility for all of our relations? And what shared obligations do such ethics create for archaeological practice?

A new study documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of any primate. 

Thanks to Julie’s bold vision and dedicated leadership, the Burke Museum has truly transformed during her tenure.

Learn more about science illustrator Sami Chang's art, research, and mollusc masterpieces!

A new study reveals that 65 plant species have gone extinct in the continental United States and Canada since European settlement