News & Stories

Paleontologists picking through a bounty of fossils from Montana have discovered something unexpected.

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

A Burke Museum graduate student travels to Colombia to study the tropical diversity of river-weed plants.

Beginning 4,000 years ago, people shifted from living solely on wild foods to farming and raising domestic animals. Why did this change occur?

The Herbarium Foray Program turns 20.

A new method of sampling fossil leaves allows researchers to more accurately predict climate temperatures.

When paleontologists cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than they bargained for—more teeth, to be specific.

An early mammal that had, pound-for-pound, the strongest bite force of any mammal ever recorded.

The Burke paleontology team is preparing a portion of the lower right jaw from the 66.3-million-year-old T. rex discovered this summer.