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“Life in One Cubic Foot” opens this weekend at the Burke Museum in Seattle. Using colorful photos, informative displays and artifacts, the exhibit celebrates biodiversity and encourages community science. It also shows the immense variety of species that can be discovered using a simple device called a biocube.
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After a summer of digging, paleontologists hauled four dinosaurs back to the Burke Museum in Seattle. These dinosaurs were excavated from rocks that are millions of years old — a process that required jackhammers, tractors and trucks. Scientists will study these fossils to unlock clues about earth's most recent mass extinction.
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A first-of-its-kind museum has opened in the Pacific Northwest: a historical showcase of the state's Spanish-speaking communities from World War II to the…
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The Burke Museum in Seattle holds more than 16 million objects related to natural and cultural history. At any given time in the past, only a tiny…
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Museum curators in the Northwest are now working to update exhibits that focus on the region’s indigenous people. They are trying to do that in a way...
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Right next door to the current Burke Museum at the University of Washington in Seattle is a much larger building under construction. When it’s complete,...
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In May of 2015, Jason Love and Luke Tufts – two friends who met at the University of Washington – went fossil hunting around the Hell Creek Formation in…
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The Burke Museum is getting a new exhibit: A Tyrannosaurus rex skull. Seattle paleontologists unearthed the fossils in northern Montana last summer. It…
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From mastodon bones to special baskets used just for clamming, the Burke Museum houses vast numbers of objects from the natural and cultural world. There…
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Washington State has its first dinosaur.Researchers at the Burke Museum say they excavated a weathered, 80 million year old thighbone from a beach on…