paleontology
March 5, 2022
Dinosaur dreams
Zeke Augustine, ’23, has sifted through soil for microscopic fossils and helped dig up a Triceratops. The Burke Museum has been at the heart of it all.
December 4, 2021
Fossil finds
A site in Montana yields a triceratops skull and other rare dinosaur fossils.
August 25, 2019
The Burke, unwrapped
In an exciting new building designed by renowned architect Tom Kundig, the Burke Museum's work all comes out into the open.
December 1, 2015
'Scarface' found
A team of scientists has identified a new species of “pre-mammal” based on fossils unearthed in Zambia’s Luangwa Basin in 2009. Its discoverers include Christian Sidor, UW professor of biology and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum.
June 1, 2015
Leaves tell a story
Miniscule, fossilized pieces of plants could tell a detailed story of what the Earth looked like 50 million years ago.
June 1, 2010
Aging dinosaurs
A new fossil find suggests that the roots of the dinosaurs’ family tree are deeper than previously thought.
December 1, 1997
Land on the move
What today are rainy British Columbia and chilly southern Alaska were once the sunny climes of Baja California, according to UW Paleontologist Peter Ward.