At a workshop in southern California, students learn a practice long associated with grizzled hunters: ‘We feel we’re giving animals a second chance’ Four dead rats. Two white guinea pig carcasses.

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A new breed of taxidermists are rebooting the practice with classes and books that show you how. But can the act of stuffing a dead animal ever be ethical? “Be careful not to cut too deep, or you’ll ...

My first brush with the process of taxidermy came as a biology student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the largest college of natural resources in America. I was hand selected by my ...

In Brooke Weston’s world of fantasy taxidermy, dead deer double as dollhouses. Peaked roofs pop out of torsos. Staircases spiral up antlers like vines. The effect is both charming and a little creepy ...

Some trophies just don’t deserve a trip to the taxidermist for a shoulder mount, yet they don’t deserve to be tacked to the tool shed, either. Boiling a skull doesn’t actually involve boiling, but ...

Taxidermy, once a word that conjured up images of moth-eaten and seldom-visited antique shops and Victorian Gentleman's clubs, is now experiencing a massive renaissance thanks to a new breed of ...