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We’re open and we can't wait to see you! 🎉 Get your tickets online today ⬇️

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We’re taking a brief hiatus on this platform to focus on bringing you all the best museum updates on Instagram and Facebook! Head on over to those platforms to see what’s going on at the Burke and plan your visit today at the link below! burkemuseum.org/tickets
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Dave named the site where he found it “Headbanger” partially because of the Pachy’s famous head-butt but also because he was listening to Metallica when he discovered it. Come see it for yourself at the Burke! *Fossil was found on public lands and collected under a permit.
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Burke paleontologist Dave DeMar found a Pachy head dome in Hell Creek Montana this summer. Pachys make up about 1% of the dinosaur fauna found in Hell Creek and this specimen seems to have come from an adult instead of the more common juveniles.
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Imagine the top of your skull was 8 inches thick. Now imagine you’re a dinosaur whose specialty is slamming your head into other dinosaurs to display dominance (we think). In this scenario, you’re a Pachycephalosaurus (Pachy for short) and your fossils are incredibly rare!
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This sockeye salmon lived 900,000 years ago in a world very different from ours. Right now, thousands of sockeye salmon are swimming upstream to the rivers in which they were born in a cycle that has continued for over a million years!
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These young salmon will go through a dramatic transformation from egg to alevin to fry to smolt and then eventually a full grown salmon. As they grow, they travel down the river and spend 4-5 years in the ocean where they serve as an important food source for species like orcas.
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A salmon is born 🎵in the In the sha-ha, sha-ha-llows🎵 Right now tens of thousands of salmon are swimming up the rivers of WA state to the streams where they were born. Some of these salmon will travel hundreds of miles upstream and sacrifice themselves to the next generation.
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Don't forget your baseball hats for this year's @MLB #AllStarGame in Seattle! Here's one of our favorite baseball hats made by Lummi weaver Tsi'li'xw James. "Usually today people buy their material,” James said. “You have to approach the tree and ask her for her bark.”
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We are so excited to announce our next special exhibit We Are Puget Sound, opening June 3! This exhibit highlights people working to protect and restore this region through stunning photography, community insights, and the Burke Museum’s collections. ➡️burkemuseum.org/pugetsound
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