At a press conference last month, Great Plains Zoo CEO Becky Dewitz said a recent examination of the museum’s taxidermy collection revealed that 79% of the specimens contained detectable levels ...

What if you could hold a hawk’s talon, examine a fossilized shark tooth, or study a coyote skull—all from your own classroom ...

The attraction, called the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, hosted one of the most impressive taxidermy collections in the country, with some 150 animals from six continents, each meticulously ...

Inside, more than a dozen massive dioramas depict nature scenes with the museum's large collection of taxidermy animals. Photographer Ton Schless has lived in several different countries and ...

Bird curator Hein Van Grouw reveals how taxidermy is still bringing nature to life, centuries after the first animals were preserved. On the first floor of the Museum's Hintze Hall, 38 pheasants rest ...

changed the purpose of taxidermy—it inspired other taxidermists to aim for accuracy in their mounts, too. 9. Many dioramas at natural history museums show animals in painstakingly recreated ...

A popular display in the Whatcom Museum’s Hall of Birds features several owls. Whatcom Museum After visitors enter the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington, most flock to the Hall of Birds.

Generations of museum-goers have stood rapt before a 150-year-old taxidermy diorama that shows a simulated lion attack—and contains a real human skull. At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History ...

Natural Sciences Research Laboratory at the Museum of Texas Tech University houses the largest collection in Texas. Here's ...

CHICAGO -- Every displayed item has a story at The Insect Asylum, a vintage taxidermy museum in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. Owner and founder Nina Salem has spent years curating her massive ...