First Evidence For A Second Breeding Season Among Migratory Songbirds Oct 29, 2009
But it turns out that they squeeze in a second breeding season during a stopover in western Mexico on their southward migration, said Sievert Rohwer a University of Washington professor emeritus of biology and curator emeritus of birds at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the UW.. "It's pretty much unheard of to have a nocturnal migrant with a second breeding season. It's a pretty special observation," Rohwer said. (Science Daily)
New exhibits coming to Agua Caliente Cultural Museum Oct 15, 2009
Kennewick Man on Trial was developed by the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington in Seattle. Raw Earth and Fire Clouds features Cahuilla pottery which began with the Cahuilla people long after basketry had reached a high level of artistry. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Team claims second batch of soft dinosaur tissue May 2, 2009
Thomas Kaye, a fossil researcher with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, remains skeptical that Schweitzer and her team have found dinosaur tissue. Last year, Kaye joined researchers in Poland and California in writing a paper published in an online journal suggesting that material her team believed was blood vessels was actually more recent biological contamination from slime that grew after moisture invaded the channels in the bones which once held blood vessels. (News & Observer)
Freaky-eyedfish accepted as new species Feb 25, 2009
Ichthyologist Ted Pietsch of the University of Washington's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture received and guessed it belonged to the Histiophryne genus. Now he has confirmed this using genetic and morphological data, and fully described the as a new species. (MSNBC -- Environment)
