This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=251&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:36:39 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A UW freshman has discovered the first Indian artifact found on the university campus in 90 years. The tan and red projectile point may be as old as 6,700 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54152 Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54152 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:10:15 GMT Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53093 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53093 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:53:49 GMT "Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren, including bouncing like a ball along the seafloor instead of swimming. The fish, which has rare forward-facing eyes like humans, also has a secretive nature. That could be the reason they weren't spotted by divers until just last year nor described in the scientific literature until now. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47496 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47496 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:00:30 GMT Paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator that probably made the Antarctica of 240 million years ago something less than a hospitable place. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43565 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43565 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:01:00 GMT Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm - or slime. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43040 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43040 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods -- any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages -- in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42393 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42393 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:01:00 GMT A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40737 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40737 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:43:45 GMT A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that's why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations will spend the next week learning way to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT A songbird species known as the Townsend's warbler has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, from Western forests for thousands of years. New research suggests substantially higher androgen levels is the reason. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5364 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5364 Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT