As piles of wet snow fell, an unexpected guest rapped at the window. My wife, Kristen, heard it bump into the glass. She was soon cupping in her hands a delicate bird she saw perched on the windowsill. “It’s a golden-crowned kinglet!” she said. Kristen is a bird biologist, but I was surprised at her […]
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture paleontologists have documented the first dinosaur fossil from Washington state. The fossil was collected by a Burke Museum research team along the shores of Sucia Island State Park in the San Juan Islands. Burke Museum researchers discovered the fossil while collecting ammonite fossils (a creature with a spiral […]
Another chapter of the notorious Sigma Alpha Epsiloon fraternity is being nationally rebuked after a racial slurred-filled chant emerged on the Internet over the weekend. The posting of the video to the Internet by a black student group at Oklahoma University depicting members of the SAE fraternity on Sunday has caused an uproar across the nation. […]