Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

The Backstory: ‘Paleo-nerds’ collided at Seattle’s Burke Museum, resulting in friendship — and 2 science books featuring Troll’s quirky art.

A reptile about the size of an iguana was the king of Antarctica is now part of the permanent collection at the Burke Museum.

A newly discovered species of whale — found preserved in ancient rock on the Oregon coast — has been named for a University of Washington paleontologist.

The old Burke’s last hurrah will be a New Years Eve party.

After spending roughly 4.9 million years in Ellensburg, the jaw bone of deer is making its way to the collection at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

How do you move a museum? Very carefully, and very slowly.

Dr. Holly Barker and Burke Museum's Oceania collections assist with University Beyond Bars classroom learning.

Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, debunks spider myths. 

UW biology professor, Christian Sidor, digs into the insights from over 2,200 fossils and counting. 

Christian Sidor, UW biology professor and curator at the Burke, weighs in on a decade's worth of research from the Southern Hemisphere and the over 2,200 fossils collected.

Last year paleontologists from the Burke discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex in eastern Montana. The fossil pieces include a complete skull -- one of only 15 ever discovered in the world.

With more than 170,000 glass vials containing spiders pickled in alcohol, yes, it is cramped in this room in the basement of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.

Long considered to be a myth, a Native blanket made of dog hair has surfaced at the Burke Museum.

Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Northwest Native American Art at the Burke Museum, Kathyrn Bunn-Marcuse, offered some choice words on cultural appropriation of native art.

Teachers at the Burke's DIG Field School in Montana had a close encounter with a long-buried T. rex.